Word: crept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note of cordiality crept into U.S.-Argentine relations last week...
...William Dukenfield, son of a poverty-stricken Philadelphia family. When he was about eleven he crowned his father with a heavy wooden box in retaliation for a whipping and ran away from home. He slept in alleys and on porches, often awoke in agony from cold. He stole milk, crept into saloons to snatch free lunch. He was always using his fists and always coughing (he later discovered that he had had tuberculosis), but he never went home. At 15 he was forcing himself to practice juggling 16 hours...
...Fish and Wildlife Service, had too many strikes against them. They reproduced slowly. Their protracted lovemaking customs were a liability. During the breeding season they would gather in flocks on high knolls, parading, capering, bowing and prancing in careless ecstasy. While crane-boy was getting crane-girl, pioneers crept up with scatter-guns and mowed them down...
...startling note of moderation crept into Palestinian affairs last week. The "Morrison Plan" for a federal Palestine was fading like a desert mirage. The Jews refused to discuss it. Arab representatives at the London conference rejected the plan in toto. The British Government was about ready to drop...
...Loss never expected to go into the movie business. But as a financial analyst with Manhattan's H. Hentz & Co. and a director of Citizens Traction Co., he often noticed another entry in the "Ci" columns: Cinecolor Corp., a company which processes color movie films. As the stock crept from 4? a share toward $1, he noticed Cinecolor more & more...