Word: creeped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Eyes peering through slits in black masks, the commandos creep up the floors of the Baghdad apartment building, ready to pounce. Their target is Omar Tamimi, an insurgent believed to have carried out the January assassination of the governor of Baghdad province. In the past, the responsibility for such high-profile operations has been shouldered by teams of elite U.S. troops. But on this night, the American commandos are playing a support role to members of the new Iraqi army's Counter Terrorism Task Force, a unit the U.S. is training to take on more counterinsurgent dirty work. The early...
...pages), which arrives in stores next week. But the sizable part that does will gain definite advantages in the richness of its thinking about brain surgery, the war in Iraq, the psychic burden of life after Sept. 11 and how it feels to be sucker-punched by an excitable creep...
...same evening, Dartmouth suffered an upset loss to the Brown Bears, allowing the Crimson to creep closer to the Big Green at one game behind...
...also becoming harder to manage. At a time when competition is rising and resources are strained, when battles over testing and accountability force schools to adjust their priorities, when cell phones and e-mail speed up the information flow and all kinds of private ghosts and public quarrels creep into the parent-teacher conference, it's harder for both sides to step back and breathe deeply and look at the goals they share...
...having with this situation is that I know The Backside Grinder personally. He assumes he has Backside Grinder License because he knows me, and I know these girls. I know in my mind that this particular Backside Grinder isn’t a creep, but his current alcohol induced ape-aggression isn’t helping his cause. If there is one thing we can all learn from The Backside Grinder is that sneak attacks only aid your cause in a thumb war—not on the dance floor...