Word: creeped
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...autobiographical benchmark on Radiohead's evolutionary path. 1993's Pablo Honey saw the Oxfordians feel their way through the essence of being a so-called alternative band in a glut of Seattleites. Zeitgeist-capturing grunge-guitar riffs, perennial themes of love and loss, and charmingly obtuse self-loathing (remember "Creep?") earmarked the band for their potential in the mainstream music scene, and, more importantly, heralded the band's existence as a self-aware musical entity...
...consensus view of the board was that "soft" meant a growth rate of 3% to 3.5% over the next year or so. That, says Blinder, might cause unemployment "to creep up ever so slightly." But it would be another Panglossian development; it would reassure the Fed, says Blinder, that the economy had slowed enough to keep inflation in check with no need for additional interest-rate hikes...
Many mornings, Annan wakes early. The light is just beginning to creep into the bedroom of his town house overlooking the East River. And as he lies in bed, he begins to pray. "Sometimes," he says, "I ask questions in my prayers. The world is so cruel. How can people be so cruel? What can one do?" Annan pauses for a moment and closes his eyes. "I'm still struggling with evil. I still don't understand how there can be so much evil, and I'm not sure that I will ever understand. Perhaps we all tend to project...
...tell." "Lemme guess - I'll mention a name, and if I count to 10 and you haven't hung up on me, I'll know it's right!" Grin. That, of course, is the sort of trick that Woodward and Bernstein used on reluctant secretaries at CREEP...
...himself when he was eight years old. It takes him a bit longer to understand that Rusty--whom he at first believes to be a hallucination--is the means by which he can begin to understand why he has, at age 40, become such a cold and driven creep, the Scrooge of sterility...