Word: creeped
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...train blasts also differed from the Basque group's traditional modus operandi in important ways: the absence of warning, which ETA usually gives; the deliberate targeting of civilians; and the sheer scale of the operation. Despite the government's professed certainty of ETA's guilt, doubts began to creep in. Then on Thursday evening, Acebes announced that in Alcala de Henares, a town about 19 miles northeast of Madrid where three of the ill-fated trains had originated and which the fourth had passed through, police found an abandoned white Renault Kangoo van containing seven copper detonators and a tape...
...tidy cook? Yes. Once you let untidiness creep in, things get beyond you. I've seen Chinese chefs in busy restaurants who work in a very small area, but they never get in a mess. Every time they use a knife they wipe it and put it back in the same position...
...carry out reconstruction tasks, train a new Afghan army and hunt terrorists. The light footprint means fewer American troops have been put at risk, but it has left the U.S.'s Afghan allies even more exposed to danger. After U.S. patrols retreat to their firebases, Afghans say, the Taliban creep back into villages to murder collaborators, usually local policemen. "We are helpless," says Mansour Mehboob, a police chief in an outpost along the Kunar River in Afghanistan. "We have only the bullets in our [guns], nothing more. And the enemy is all around...
...teams are coached today, it’s hard to create a numerical advantage, whether it’s a two-on-one, three-on-two, or four-on-three,” Mazzoleni said. “The only way you can create that advantage is to creep your weakside...
...friendly environment in Dunster—and throughout Harvard—requires a concerted and committed effort by tutors, student groups, the administration and all students. Bolstered by a strong in-House support system, BGLT students will hopefully never again feel trapped in the closet—forced to creep out silently, pretend as though they never came out in the first place or, worse yet, endure it alone. Particularly at an institution as liberal as Harvard, students ought to feel confident about asserting their sexuality—with or without the fanfare and balloons...