Word: creeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear that they had to pare down the number of characters wandering through the story to keep within the limits of the CinemaScope screen. But when only a lean-faced Mel Ferrer, a sullen Ava Gardner, and a Frank Merriwellish Robert Taylor remain, disappointment tends to creep in. All that keeps the audience from leaving their seats are the colorful sword-swinging battle scenes between regiments of Round Table rivals and the single-handed heroics of Robert Taylor's Launcelot...
With 12 little cards and 13 signatures, the men in University Hall might well relax, secure in the knowledge that they have their 10,000 sheep well within the fold. But, after a term, the old doubts creep back again and at spring registration each student is confronted with two more cards, just to make sure...
...grandchildren of his own. I think one of the reasons he married me was on account of the babies, who adore him . . . But there is one thing he can't take. He doesn't like 'Grandpa.' I guess that sort of thing has to creep up on one ... So the issue has been settled by their using the less traumatic salutation: 'Uncle...
...years creep slowly by, Lorena...
...closed fist, one of the Chinese flipped a hand grenade. The grenade killed the Korean. Stanley hoisted his 20-lb. rifle to his shoulder and killed both Chinese with a single burst. Then, as burp gun slugs and a hail of grenades fell around him, he began to creep back down the slope, looking for cover...