Word: crept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green coveralls that blended with the deep color and shadow of the tropics. Once they had little else to fight with but machine guns, rifles and knives; now they had ample artillery and support from sea and air. Once they massed and deployed awkwardly in textbook tactics; now they crept silently through the jungle. At Viru Harbor, U.S. Marines, infiltrating from the rear, wiped out Jap outposts and drove the defenders into the sea. The Jap supply line to Munda was cut by a roadblock which the Japs were unable to bypass. The Americans were using Japanese tactics to drive...
...inflation continued on its course last week-the public paid more & more money for what it got. And lots of people, in buying stocks, were betting that inflation cannot be checked, that prices will keep on going up. On the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow-Jones industrial average crept upward to 143.68, highest since May 1940; the utilities hit a new high of 21.35; railroads were close to their May peak. Last month was the busiest June in five years. Ahead were July and August, which have shown rising markets two years out of three for 50-odd years...
...kind of low, clammy, soft-footed, zoot-suited, Persian prolixity and Madame Overdone Hotbed, bawdy and Baluchistan tribesman sort of spurious de luxe taste had crept in during . . . the past 20 years. Against all this the good gray typographer, B.R., has set his vertical spine...
...against defeatists, inflation and black-market dealings. Scorza, tall, tough provincial Party boss who once cheated Credito Toscano out of $6,000,000, is one of the Party's most ruthless administrators, has run an almost continuous series of purges of apparently thousands of "cancroid creatures who have crept into the Mussolini structure...
...announced that if Bengasi fell to Rommel he would no longer be able to take convoys through to Malta. Bengasi fell. He called his staff together and said: "Gentlemen, you have just heard that the Germans have taken Bengasi. We'll run a convoy next week." When Rommel crept within 65 miles of Alexandria, reporters asked A.B.C. what its loss would mean. He said: "Oh, I don't think we are getting...