Word: crept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...west coast of England last week crept the French Navy's minesweeper Siam, spying on schools of herring. Its assignment : to learn how to hunt fish with ASDIC (developed for the Allied Submarine Device Investigation Committee, from whose initials it took its name...
...Darkness crept into the huge courtroom as the toneless voice (which once sang resonantly in the Serbian mountains) droned on & on. For the first time in six weeks the crowd of a thousand spectators ceased their hissing. They listened intently to Draja Mihailovich's last defense. He spoke with calm and sincerity, as if he knew that history would heed him even though Communist Tito's court would...
...hint of defeat crept into Manuel Roxas' prepared Independence Day speech to his countrymen. Said he: "In the world of affairs we irretrievably subscribe to the principles enunciated by the great leaders of the American revolution, to the cause and program being led today by the U.S. The system of free but guided enterprise is our system. We will defend it against the ideological onslaughts . . . of anti-democratic creeds. The proponents of these views will be protected in their right to hold and openly advocate them. They will not be protected in subversive schemes to destroy the structure...
...Into the usually accurate medical department of TIME [June 10] crept two errors...
After that, numbly or with blind desperation, they tried to stay alive. The lights went out on many floors after a while, but scores of people crept out into the hot, dark, smoke-filled corridors hunting for fire escapes. Gasping dozens suffocated, lay still after going a few feet. A few people shut themselves into bathrooms. Most stayed at their windows, screaming, waving sheets, tossing down lamps and bric-a-brac to attract attention...