Word: crept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Ludwig Sertorius, military commentator for the German Transocean News Service, said: "The German counteroffensive has shifted . . . in harmony with the general trend of fighting into the northern direction." Having retaken Kharkov, having consolidated positions on the western bank of the Donets, the German efforts crept to the Belgorod Sector, 45 miles north of Kharkov, to the Kursk sector, 120 miles north, to the Bryansk sector, 250 miles northwest of Kharkov. Smolensk is 145 miles northwest of Bryansk...
...noon the Del Commune had traveled only three miles. Her officers took counsel, decided to give up, pointed her battered nose back to Dubuque. When she crept into harbor she was sheathed with snow...
...night last summer, a small sailboat crept out of Batavia. Aboard were three Dutchmen, the first and (so far) the only white men on record who have escaped from Java since the Japs took the island almost a year ago. Last week one of those Dutchmen, safe in the U.S., told what it was like to live under Japanese military rule...
...last week promoted from Colonel General to Army General, the Reds exploited their advantage. Belgorod fell. So did Lozovaya, Voroshilovsk, Voroshilovgrad, Likhaya. The attackers rolled around Kharkov, which like Kursk had been one of the main fortresses on Germany's great wall of last winter. Russians crept early this week to within seven miles of Kharkov, and the city's fall seemed imminent. It was all surprisingly easy. The hedgehogs seemed to be walking away in the snow, shedding only a few barbed quills...
...their eyes. Between floating laundry barges, tall poplars, lines of motionless fishermen, they passed within a stone's throw of Daumier's house on the Ile St. Louis. Gliding under the great city's bridges, they threaded their way through the formal shadow of the Louvre, crept by the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, skirted the soft Bois de Boulogne, finally relinquished the monuments of men for those of nature as the steamer saluted the shores of La Grande Jatte, the island where bustled Parisian Mesdames once gathered for gaiety on sun-drenched meadows...