Word: creeped
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Herpes, from the Greek "to creep," has been around for ages: the Roman Emperor Tiberius vainly tried to stamp it, or something like it, out by banning kissing. With the sexual revolution of the 1960s, herpes broke out of its confines as a venereal disease that was thought (incorrectly) to afflict only the "licentious" lower classes. Suddenly, "viruses of love" infected entire college dormitories and rode the waves of rising divorce and crumbling monogamy...
...lechery are humorously blurred with a yearning for the Absolute. In short, the novel is a romantic and philosophical farce, a form of entertainment that the author has owned since the publication of such fetching titles as No but I Saw the Movie, Into Your Tent I'll Creep, The Tunnel of Love and Comfort Me with Apples...
...gone from 19.4% of his income in 1975 to 21.9% today, and will reach 22.7% in 1981. Federal taxes next year are due to increase by about $45 billion because of higher Social Security payroll deductions, the new windfall profits tax on oil companies and the so-called bracket creep, whereby inflation pushes taxpayers into higher income and tax categories...
...kept busy recording the surprisingly cheerful activities during the captives' five-week ordeal. Last week guerrillas released six more of the "non-diplomats," reducing the number of hostages to 23. Otherwise, negotiations between terrorists and the Colombian government, conducted in a panel truck outside, continued to creep along at a frustrating pace as the guerrillas persisted in their demand for the release of 28 prisoners from Colombian jails...
Holding a 7-4 lead, the Crimson offense dried up in the closing minutes, giving Dartmouth a chance to creep up. Attackmen Rob Olsson and Dave O'Connor both fired home big ones to bring the Big Green to within striking distance...