Word: creep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...olds and younger can learn spatial concepts -- in and out, over and around -- by crawling in a padded plastic turtle shell or sinking into a quicksand of colorful balls and learning to control the multicolored plastic objects. Kids ages 4 to 6 climb a padded "Swiss-cheese mountain" or creep through a maze of blue, fuchsia and yellow tunnels. Youngsters up to 12 balance on a rope walk or on a webbed "bean field," a bouncy surface with punching bags that hang above it within a child's grasp. A nearby concession offers turkey dogs, pizza, and carrot and celery...
...them in. Thelma is still the teenager at the slumber party who gets bored and has to call a few boys to come over. Less than an hour out of town, she talks Louise into stopping at a raunchy bar, where she dances with a creep who then tries to rape her in the parking lot. The women are sympathetic enough characters by this time so that we leap over the hurdle many adventure movies present -- Why didn't they call the police? -- and rationalize what might be a cold-blooded murder as an act of self-defense. That...
...horrible," stroke Rachel Lerner said. "But we managed to stay ahead the whole way. We kept expecting them to creep up on us but they just never made a challenge...
...Current on the unfamiliar river also threw Radcliffe a little off course. Though Radcliffe never let the other crews creep too close, the Radcliffe boats themselves has a tendency to creep directly towards their opponents. The water was deceptively calm, hiding a coxswaim's nightmare of a cross-current...
...mentality is there: Fitzsimmons has the power to let the number of international students "creep up" (Nye's phrase) as he finds more "excellent candidates," (also Nye's phrase). And the space could be there as soon as the affiliated housing near the Quad is renovated...