Word: crept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carried out two of the wildest and most feline raids of the war. They sneaked on cat feet into a Japanese supply base near Digos, a port on the Gulf of Davao, and burned warehouses containing "large stocks of food, gasoline, ammunition and other military supplies." Near Zamboanga they crept in camouflaged force toward one side of the town, made as much noise as Kilkenny cats on the other, then rushed against the rear of the "alert" Japanese into the very heart of town. They killed some Japanese and vanished, except for a smile-for they had found they could...
Wake. The task force crept up before dawn on Feb. 24. Before the sun had burst up out of the sea behind low-hanging clouds, the planes were launched, the force advanced, deployed, put into action. The Jap was caught snoozing...
...this time the Germans fought back, spitting torpedoes. One torpedo punched the frail hull of the Vortigern, a 1,090-ton oldtimer, and she went down. The British patrol sloop Guillemot, a 580-tonner which can do little better than 20 knots, spotted an E-boat lying in ambush, crept up within 50 yards before the German crew woke up. The Guillemot sent a 4-in. shell into the E-boat's water line and hosed its deck with machine-gun bullets. "It is considered," said the Admiralty communiqué, "that this boat was sunk...
They also fought effectively. Hints of the headlong desperation of their smashing drives into Nazi lines even crept into German communiques. Berlin admitted that the Russians were on the edge of the Soviets' Pittsburgh -Kharkov -by saying that the city had been under heavy artillery fire. Bald Marshal Semion Timoshenko was within 20 miles of Dniepropetrovsk and its wrecked power dam, bulling his way ahead at the tip of a sharp salient...
...that seaborne vision was having heavy weather. Anti-British jokes had cropped up again, anti-British criticisms crept even into friendly editorials, were ridden hard by Anglophobes, spurred on by Axis propaganda. Many a U.S. citizen thought the closest U.S. ally a failure...