Word: creepingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaving behind an inner-city population that is 51.3% black. Unemployment among the marginally skilled blacks of the ghettos is three times that of the city's whites. Although it boasts one of the world's busiest airports and a rail network that feeds the Southeast, Atlanta's commuters creep bumper to bumper in rush-hour traffic unrelieved by mass transit. Within minutes of downtown is bucolic countryside?but Peachtree Creek and the Chattahoochee River are badly polluted. Inexorably, Atlanta moves toward repeating the environmental and demographic mistakes of older cities. Neon and tacky developments push the city's fringes...
...became the superstar of films, records, TV and the casinos of Las Vegas. He took over the Rat Pack. It is said that at a Democratic conclave once, he was affectionately greeted by Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, whom he told to "take your hands off the threads, creep." He was wanted both at Kennedy campaign rallies and rackets-commission hearings. He was into the airline business, missile parts, and had a personal staff of 75. Briefly he was married again, this time to Mia Farrow, who was less than half his age. Perhaps most surprising of all, after...
...South Vietnamese who went into Laos were sweeping southeastward toward home, hilltop hopping by helicopter and disrupting enemy supply routes. Some 10,000 more ARVN troops, whose armored column had been stalled for five weeks on Route 9, 15 miles inside Laos, began a slow creep back toward the border...
Peter treats Julius cruelly ("Yer a god damn creep, that's what you are!") throughout the film. People in the Carpenter Center audience who were familiar with the catatonic conditions were shocked. Catatonics know what is going on around them, they are driven deeper into their condition by the reaction of those around them. They are speechless, often, and retreat into a totally noncommunicative state eventually, depending on their environment. And as we see the film progress, there are many instances in which the camera itself is a very threatening presence to the real Julius Orlovsky (the one with...
While the Committee on Undergraduate Education has dominated most curriculum reform discussion for the past year and a half, this first reform to effect most undergraduates did not creep through the bureaucratic jungle of the CUE but instead emerged swiftly and quietly from the Committee on General Education...