Word: crept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commodities. The Bureau of Labor Statistics index of commodity prices crept up another fraction of a point, reached 104.9% of the 1926 average-a new wartime highwater mark. As usual, higher prices for foodstuffs contributed most to the rise...
...touch. I flopped back on the bottom of the trench and began to shake. The whine started again and I thought, 'They are going to get me this time. . . .' I tried to sink my head into my shoulders, turtle fashion, and I closed my eyes. The whine crept down the scale and I shook, not like shivering from cold but slower and bigger. Some of my weight was on my arms and they shook in particular, but the source of the shaking was nowhere and all over; I remember feeling my knees bumping the ground...
...planes from Britain and Italy. They took a loss of over 700 fighters in November, but their dispersed and hidden assembly plants were more than able to replace it. In October the Reich had shuddered under the second heaviest bomb tonnage of the war,* but its oil production had crept up (according to Allied intelligence) from 23% to 30% of 1943 capacity...
...morning of Thanksgiving Day a note of genuine alarm had crept into the newspaper accounts. Doom-voiced radio announcers rushed to their microphones as the strike spread to Detroit and Washington, as it threatened to engulf New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. And then, just as the nation rose from its Thanksgiving dinners, the strike ended as abruptly as it had begun...
After dark the 35th's volunteer "baby patrol"-a French captain, an American officer and ten G.I.s-slipped across the line, sloshed across 1,000 yards of rainswept marsh, crept into the house...