Word: crept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crossing was made after two trainees had swum the icy, 100-ft. stream carrying a pioneer towline. After landing they pulled across the rope bridge, tied it to trees. Then others of their company crept across while machine guns, bombs and mines simulated battle conditions...
...muttered. Then, remembering, he stretched his arm out, palm downward, in salute. Suddenly he heard a panting behind him. Relax, Ted, he thought, you don't have to fill it all yourself. But Vag had been fooled by the dark. It was only when the furry frightened creature crept closer whimpering "Oh dear, oh dear, I'll be late. What will the Duchess say?" that he realized. One of Mike's cuddly rabbits; Disney will never live it down. Vag jumped as the match burned...
...First of all it was the short English working week which crept in on the Continent. . . . From 48 hours it went to 45, and then to 40. Workers began somewhere near the proper hour but prepared to leave quarter of an hour before time...
...limited nature of General Wavell's attack in Burma was now clear. He wanted Akyab. He wanted it as an air base for attacks on Rangoon and Mandalay, and so that the Japs could not have it for attacks on Chittagong and Calcutta. His advance last week crept forward without major Japanese opposition but in the face of a bitterly resisting terrain to within 25 miles of the objective. To support him Allied flyers pasted Japanese bases at Heho and Shwebo, near Mandalay. They attacked Magwe, 128 miles east of Akyab, three times in two days. And they attacked...
Later he discovered a bonfire behind America First headquarters. At night he crept in, gathered up charred debris, examined the fragile fragments under magnifying glass, deciphered many names...