Word: creeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barnes's prescriptions, Denver now admits-with the pleased air of a patient who is convalescing after a difficult medical treatment-have achieved wonderful results. Barnes's dance allows twelve automobiles to turn at downtown intersections on every green light where only one was able to creep through the screen of pedestrians before. Denver's evening traffic now clears up 20 minutes earlier than in 1947 although the city now has 44% more automobiles. Last year traffic deaths were down to 45, as compared with 64 in the year before Barnes took over...
...Alaskan airmen did not put up much of a fight. After a tricky deployment of Pentagon charts of organization, the ice men became naturalized employees of the Northeast Air Command (headquarters: Pepperrell Air Force Base, Newfoundland). If Fletcher's Island continues to creep far enough eastward, it will eventually enter the territory of some Soviet air command. Then the Air Force guardian of lines of demarcation will have a trickier problem...
...didn't see me creep Down the stairs to have a peep, She thought that I was tucked up In my bedroom fast asleep...
...come whimsical variations hinting at everything from Stravinsky to Gershwin to Bach. When he comes to his solo part, Brubeck picks a random theme and toys with it, reflectively trying it first on the white keys, then on the black, allowing traces of Mozart or John Philip Sousa to creep in. Then his eyes close, his head weaves, and the music settles into a firm idea and starts prancing up the keyboard...
...Government must be constituted ... of such incorruptible character that subversion cannot creep in ... And if there be an erring man or woman, who having gotten into . . . Government, shows the signs of disloyalty, we have ample, just and American methods of getting rid of them. We have to destroy the reputation of no innocent man. We can do it and must do it promptly, but in the American...