Word: creep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, Norwegians will hardly go without. Unemployment is a slim 1.3%; government officials figure that it may creep up during the austerity period, but only to 2%. Oil production doubled this year, to 102 million bbl., or about one-third as much as Mexico produces, and next year it is expected to rise by 35%. The government has decided to award seven of its remaining North Sea concessions between December and February, several months ahead of schedule...
...platoon moves out toward the objective, a helicopter pad 800 meters away. Duden and the advance fire team climb to the top of a small hill while the rest of the platoon, headed by Lieut. Steve Darnell, pushes through the wooded terrain. All the soldiers creep silently through the underbrush. "It's pretty quiet," whispers Duden. "I just hope Darnell hasn't gotten us lost again...
...leave again-on the ground that he was too precious a commodity to be allowed abroad. Continuing his experiments at home, Kapitsa helped shed light on the extraordinary behavior of supercold helium-helium II-which acts as a perfect fluid, so lacking in viscosity that it will creep over the wall of a glass container. After World War II, Kapitsa was placed under house arrest in what was apparently a dispute with Secret Police Chief Lavrenti Beria, who was then also head of the Soviet atomic bomb project. Finally released after Stalin's death, he resumed the direction...
...original proposal for its elimination did a bureaucratic shuffle last May into a review committee surveying the whole of admissions at the Med School. The Third World and minority students thought then that they had won at least another year for the sub-committee--assuming that the bureaucracy would creep at its usual petty pace...
...cold, dark January night. John Mendell, 31, and Steve Garcia, 29, both burglars by trade and members of a gang of jewel thieves, creep up to a sprawling ranch-style house in the swank Chicago suburb of River Forest. The owner is vacationing in Florida, and there is $1 million in jewelry inside?jewelry they believe is rightfully theirs. A conversation can be imagined...