Word: creep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Bardot's attempts to find the real murderer produce reactions ranging from catcalling laughter to a commendable degree of tension. Where the heroine of an Alfred Hitchcock movie would creep inquisitively into a fruit cellar, Miss Bardot pursues her suspicions into an attic, and although the only person she finds there is a police officer also investigating the crime, the classic suspense formula nevertheless brings forth some tight moments...
...could list many examples to make the point: apartheid has tentacles which creep into very home, and under many beds...
Behind the nationwide one-day strike of government employees, from postmen to customs inspectors, lay the dissatisfaction of lower-income Frenchmen at the steady upward creep of consumer prices. Though France has 30% more cars on the road this year than last, and the long-abused French franc continues to gain strength in relation to gold and the dollar, the new prosperity fostered by Charles de Gaulle has not trickled down to the lowest-paid classes. Even conservative newspapers concede that the pay of government employees, traditionally a pace setter for clerical workers generally, is disgracefully low. Only 14% earn...
With the gains there were signs that prices were creeping up again. The Labor Department reported that the wholesale price index for the month of March had risen 0.6%, to 120% of the 1947-49 average. The March rise, the largest in the past two years (see chart) was caused primarily by bad weather, which brought an increase in the cost of foods. Labor Department experts expect that wholesale prices, along with consumer prices, will creep up more than 1% this year...
...falls, it will pick up speed from the sun's gravitational field and will creep ahead of the earth. After a while, it will be moving fast enough to stop falling and to maintain itself in an eccentric solar orbit. The more backward speed the probe has when it clears the earth, the slower it will be moving around the sun and the farther it will fall toward the sun before it goes into a solar orbit. To fall all the way to Venus, whose orbit is 25 million miles inside the earth's, a probe would have...