Word: creeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace delegates with their chess-like conception of statesmanship. But at the first suggestion to destroy these relics of a barbarian age, to junk battleships and to stop building them, to abolish the submarine, like wary hermit-crabs the delegations retire within their shells. And when they venture to creep out again, it is with the cautious suggestion that weapons of war should be merely limited. Carried to its logical conclusion the absurdity is almost funny, and admirals might fight their duels with swords. But the situation is too pitifully serious...
...impossible for favoritism to creep in, especially in regard to substitutions. Obviously the burden on the captain would be out of proportion to that on any of the other eight men, and the captain's performance would most certainly suffer...