Word: crept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight for fullback has now developed into a three-cornered one between Wayne Johnson, Tom Cowen, and Paul Perkins. Everyone expected Cowen and Johnson to be fighting it out even before practice started, but Perkins is a comparative dark horse who has crept up to a position where he is a definite contender for the first string fullback berth...
...meantime Colonel Carlson had led the main group of Marines toward the heart of the island. They crept into several shacks, found them empty except for such things as a piano and a roll of sacred music (the Marines found no trace of several Catholic nuns who had been on the islands). The clatter of the Jap machine gun, firing at Lieut. Le-François, first told Colonel Carlson that his landing had been detected. Then the Marines heard the hard chatter of truck and motorcycle engines, the flat crack of snipers' bullets from the palms...
Thanks to increased carloadings, TIME'S Index crept up to 181.2 (estimated) in the Aug. 22 week, 0.7 point above the preceding week's final figure and 20 points above a year ago. The steel-scrap shortage plagued steelmakers; power production flattened...
Riots and killings, the whip and executions mean disorder; the spread of boycotts, strikes, sullenness and turmoil mean a mass movement. The India Office, not for the first time, was talking colonial whitewash. Although doubts crept in and a few liberal voices spoke up, the British press, for the most part, obscured the issue. So did the U.S. press, with few exceptions (see cuts). What was happening in India was being felt by the world. A cry for freedom, confused, tragic, but potentially as powerful as any since Voltaire's Ecrasez I'In fame (Crush the Infamous!) could...
Into the U.S. radio announcer's voice, whose main job has always been to promote sales in delicious tones, a new note has crept-a note of No. Announcers who still sounded as though they were bottled in heavy cream were last week giving such commercials...