Word: creep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning of "Apple Tree," she coos, "I can't control the soul flowin' in me," going on to prove it with scat refrains culminating in a call-and-response exchange with the audience. In "Apple Tree" as well as throughout Live, Badu lets her Southern accent creep beautifully into her phrasing, turning a there into "thur" and a can't into a lingering "caint...
With The Crimson now receiving a greater number of letters to the editors than in past years, I caution those responsible for editing and publishing the letters to take extra care in ensuring both that the author's meaning is preserved and that bias does not creep into choices about what language to cut or retain. Choices about which letters to publish should ensure that the diversity of reader opinion on the Harvard campus is properly represented. The Crimson should continue to retain as much of a letter's own language as possible and exercise caution in those instances...
...paper in the country, behind the Wall Street Journal and USA Today) were greeted last Monday, for the first time ever, with color photos in the daily paper. It's part of the most radical face-lift the Times has attempted in two decades. Besides adding color (which will creep from the "soft" sections onto the front page sometime in October), the Times has expanded from four to six sections on most weekdays, giving sports and arts their own daily freestanding sections for the first time. Deadlines have been moved back to get in later news and sports scores; revamped...
...only it was possible to creep back in time, back to the elementary days when spiral stacks of rainbow tinted paper and Transformer Trapper Keepers were all you needed to appear self-assured...
...threat of the "chain creep"--the proliferation of brand-name superstores--that elicits much aggression from the Defense Fund...