Word: crept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...term hour exam grades went into the Dean's Office yesterday and some people are due for a shock when they find that spring fever has crept into summer...
...Admirals in the whole - Navy." For the rest of the morning and all afternoon, indignity was piled on indignity. Between affronts, Woody lugged bed clothes, changed white shirt for grey, shut tled to & from the cadet store with supplies, learned about demeanor and demerits, drew a rifle, drilled, ran, crept, crawled, fell in but never out. When he finally stretched out in Beast Barracks that night, he understood exactly what they had meant at Annapolis when they spoke of "Hell on the Hudson." How Many Days, O Catiline? In Beast Barracks, plebes are confined for two weeks; they are then...
Through this smouldering shambles the sullen Germans-orderly to the last-filed in columns to lay down their arms at collection points. Men with grey, stubbly beards crept out of cellars, subways and dugouts under white flags to surrender trudge silently out of the city under guard. Said Moscow: 507,000 Germans were killed or captured in the Battle of Berlin...
...brilliant career came to a catastrophic end in the world's most sensational vice trial. Poet Francis Thompson, an opium addict, was reduced to destitution, and died leaving behind his minor masterpiece of repentant self-martyrdom, The Hound of Heaven. Poet James Thomson (The City of Dreadful Night) crept starving to the bed of a blind friend, who stretched out his hands and withdrew them covered with the blood of Thomson's fatal hemorrhage. Simeon Solomon died in a poorhouse; consumption killed Ernest Dowson (Cynara) at 33. Brilliant Aubrey Beardsley, whose delicate, sensual illustrations for Wilde...
Senator Happy Chandler, newly-crowned czar of baseball, crept out on a limb for this epic struggle by declaring. "This great game will undoubtedly the greatest of all the when it returns by the forefront to proclaim its possibility of ability. I firmly believe that baseball can played in several episodes which must...