Word: creeping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wolf" is an entertaining movie. It has you gripping your seats on occasion and gagging at the gore and the muck. It doesn't creep into your mind and make you scared to walk alone under a full moon, though. So if you think you can stomach the blood and want to see Nicholson and Pfeiffer doin' their thing, buy some microwave popcorn, sit back and watch it on video, because you can afford to miss it in the theaters...
...Fatigue in the second half hurt us, especially at midfield," Eckert said, "and we let them creep back...
Stealthy as a pirate slipping from a cove, the cancer cell severs the moorings that attach it to surrounding tissue. Slowly it extends one, two, three fingerlike probes and begins to creep. Then it detects the pulsating presence of a nearby capillary and darts between the cells that compose the blood- vessel wall. It dives into the red river that courses through lung and liver, breast and brain. An hour or so later, it surfaces on some tranquil shore, settles down and -- at the expense of its hapless neighbors -- begins to prosper...
...must assume) winning the NCAA title at the end of the year is Harvard's main goal, then losing two nights ago might have been just the tonic to keep its charge alive. Why allow any feelings of contentedness to creep into a mindset focused on the future...
...care-if-they're-not-doing -anything-at-the-moment- they're-thinking-about-it-and-they-will-when-they-have- the-chance. What is expressed here is an aversion that is both aesthetic and intimate, a horripilation of the sexual reflex that is perfectly captured by the word creep. Maddy Monkey knows that women now, in 1994, certainly have the language to talk about it. They are doing so. The war is not exactly undeclared...