Word: creep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...additional irony that the increase in the minimum wage may actually leave some families worse off. When household incomes creep up, many workers find themselves suddenly ineligible for the food stamps, housing allowances and Medicaid that have made the difference between mere discomfort and true desperation...
...example. There's this lug in your cast with the acting range of an oak tree, who reads his lines like a zombie with hemorrhoids. But he's a plodder, practicing for hours, week after week, and suddenly--maybe a week before your performance--life begins to creep into his performance: the gestures become bigger and more fluent, the line readings more flamboyant and on-target, and you convince yourself, in the euphoria of the opening, that he is giving a good performance...
Prepare for the Day Of. Have ink, computer paper, a laser printer, a binder, wads of money, a title page and running shoes ready for the final race to turn that baby in. Watch the writer's eyes start to open. Watch a smile creep across the writer's pale, emaciated face...
Hernandez said that reports written by senior members of the department include terms that "clearly have racial connotations." Hernandez pointed to a report by Lt. Timothy Lane on the alleged harassment incident which he said described Davis as a "predatory animal" and a "creep...