Word: creep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unsurprisingly, accounts of expensive residences becoming kindling, or descriptions of boots bursting into flame as perspiring Icelanders combat the creep of lava that threatens their fishing village, are fundamentally more dramatic than the mysterious workings of southern Louisiana hydrology. Yet all three elemental battles recounted by the masterly McPhee are unified by the most uncontrolled and stubborn of all forces: human nature...
While watching Larrv Gelbart's production Mastergate at the American Repertory Theater (ART), the one question that might creep into one's head is "is this live or is this Memorex?" Gelbart's satire, based on the 1987 Iran-Contra hearings, has replicated the images of the Congressional investigation so closely that one feels as if he has walked into a time warp...
...nearly 9.5% during the past nine months. Economists polled by TIME estimate that the prime lending rate will climb from its current 10.5% to 11% by June but will end the year at 10% after the economy slows down. As that happens, economists expect, the unemployment rate will creep up two-tenths of a percentage point...
...Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a gigantic hole in a salt bed 2,150 ft. beneath southeastern New Mexico, was supposed to start receiving waste (primarily clothing and tools contaminated by radiation) from Rocky Flats and nine other atomic plants around the country this month. In theory, the salt will creep back around the waste, sealing it harmlessly into the earth. But safety concerns and legal problems have put off the opening date to -- well, when? August at the earliest, says the Department of Energy...
Cars, trucks, buses and cranes creep slowly day and night up the narrow, winding roads across the Caucasus range to the stricken area about 50 miles away. The sound of honking horns and grinding engines breaks the mournful silence of stricken villages and cities...