Word: creeping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rudenstine finished his first year as president, he watched the May 1992 ROTC deadline creep closer. The Faculty was busy avoiding taking action, electing instead to allow six-month extension on a report on the issue...
...them, black-robed women tend their children and few remaining buffalo in tiny makeshift clearings, while men, armed with old AK-47 assault rifles, crouch in hidden blinds along the waterways, waiting for Iraqi patrols. Only at nightfall, when the government troops return to their bases, can the men creep back to their families to sleep...
...data about isobars. Phil Connors (Murray) is an ace at his job; he has the patter down pat. But he's been working under his own high- pressure system too long. Off camera, to his producer, Rita (Andie MacDowell), and his cameraman, Larry (Chris Elliott), Phil is a captious creep. They would be thrilled to hear that he has been lost in space...
...other college student. Regular active-duty military personnel live full-time in barracks racks, ships and submarines. And although all military personnel go through some kind of boot camp, subsequent service life is generally more normal (a relative term), allowing the common worries and concerns of life to creep back...
...Crimson could get no closer. Whenever they would creep to within striking distance, Sytulek would answer with a long-range bomb...