Word: creepingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about her own biases. She never specifies what motivated her to initiate the study. The theories and quotations Hite presents fit together so smoothly, one cannot avoid suspecting her of manipulating information. I suppose I would have felt this less if some distinctly anti-male sentiments didn't frequently creep into the book, affording an almost universally negative impression of men. In many ways, Hite seems overly anxious for the reader to accept that men are continually boorish, selfish, uninspired and non-emotional...
...could have just died," Gerry Joe sobbed. And how about the time that his field general offered the observation that supplying footballs to the opposition's offense was an "economic burden for Harvard?" That was a real beaut. "I always knew that creep would mess me up eventually," Gerry Joe cursed out loud...
...then strange things began to happen. Late in the spring, consumers began to pull back, and retail sales went flat. Partly as a result, unemployment started to creep back up-from a low of 7.3% in May to 7.9% in August and 7.8% last month. Layoffs rose and help-wanted ads declined. After Labor Day, the signs of listlessness grew; there were falloffs in factory orders and commercial building contracts...
Mansfield, who called last year for a "general deflation" in grades and for a return to the tougher grading standards of the late 1960's, said that he has been "exhorting members of the department who haven't noticed the upward creep in grades to pay attention to what they've been doing...
...turned out, of course, the fact that he was so cut off from CREEP, Nixon and the White House saved Dole's political career after Watergate. He attacked the press for hounding Nixon on Watergate, but he apparently knew nothing about the break-in that eventually was to drive Nixon to resign. Although he defended the President too long, Dole declared as early as May 18, 1973, that "Nixon appears to be hiding from the people, who really trust and like him very much." The Senator advised the President to come out of seclusion and meet openly with...