Word: creeped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dangerous movies are. How a slick upbeat surface can bowl over and infatuate your senses, how a movie's immediacy can hit you with its message without giving you the data needed to consider the issues it raises; how flashy technology can play upon your emotional vulnerability and creep into your bloodstream. A commercially calculated cynicism can warp, even wreck your beliefs...
...would ask extraordinary questions, like 'How many in your kinship group have been bewitched?' That's a terribly important question in Navajo terms. And of course, you'd say -I don't know,' and think 'What an idiotic question.' Meanwhile the Navajo is thinking, 'My God, what a creep! What a primitive creep...
...still have no shortage of lendable money for housing. Most likely, economic expansion during the rest of 1973 will also show itself largely immune to those palpitations. A more pressing concern will be to keep the boom from getting out of hand. By letting other short-term interest rates creep up while he jawbones the prime, Dr. Burns may be trying to fill that prescription...
...which Mead describes her attic office at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History: "It was the kind of room I had always chosen in each house we lived in. Among other advantages, there were two stairways leading up to the tower. This meant that one could creep down one stairway while someone whom one did not want to meet was coming up the other...
However, Dick Daley, the Massachusetts CREEP press officer added. "You could spend that much and still only run a mediocre Congressional campaign...