Word: crept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slowly the Germans crept toward Voronezh. They crossed and cut Russia's important railway link between Moscow and Rostov. They commanded the middle reaches of the Don, although they had yet to master its lower channel, where most of the river's traffic moves, where Russia breeds her fighting Cossacks. Some 100 miles below Voronezh, the Nazis seized Rossosh. Then they drove on south and eastward...
Since the glider program has been under way, a touch of Tom Swift and His Wonderful Airship has crept into the shoptalk of Army airmen. As of Jan. 1, Army glider pilots, like Army gliders, were rare as four-leaf clovers. Few air experts knew what gliders could do (except for what they had read about Crete). As far as the U.S. public was concerned, gliding was still a game for a few nutty newsreel daredevils around Elmira...
...beaches of the Atlantic were stained with the brown blood of ships that could not be spared. Now oily hemorrhages spread on the flats of two great rivers. One of them was the St. Lawrence. Between its wildly beautiful banks, in the midriff of stubbornly isolationist Quebec, the German crept and waited. He nailed two ships in inland waters, and Quebec began searching its soul as it had never searched before...
Last week real alarm crept up the citizen's veins. Seven officials went before a Senate committee, painted a picture so black that it was veiled in military secrecy, and asked for power to requisition private tires and cars...
Eyes on the Needles. The men who watch the gauges indicating how the U.S. war economy is going scanned their dials anxiously this week. The needle points crept up & up. Like a good head of steam in a boiler, higher wages and prices had been useful for a while -the steam behind the throttle was pretty low when the war boom started. But now the indicators inched toward the danger point...