Word: crept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Chinaglia crept closer. In an instant he was free, directly in front of the Sounders' goal. Bogicevic dribbled for a moment, seeking an opening. A Seattle fullback charged. Bogie shuttled the ball to Chinaglia, who glanced at Brand, crouched in the goal. The ball struck Chinaglia's right foot and he shifted his weight to kick it with his left. But his trap was faulty, the ball slid between his legs, an amateurish error. The Sounders took the ball back upfield as the crowd booed, a moose call building like a jet taking off. Chinaglia trotted a few steps...
However, a commonly believed error crept into the accompanying article on his life: that he never gave Fernande Olivier, his first mistress, any financial aid. I saw her in 1966. She was white-haired and bedridden, looked very small in her tiny apartment in the environs of Paris, and had pinned on the wall postcards of Picasso's Blue Period paintings. She told me she had never asked him for a penny, but that when she became too crippled to work a year or so before, a mutual friend had told Pablo, and since then he had paid...
...store for the collective leadership now ruling the U.S.S.R.? Sovietologists agree that the oldsters clustered around President Leonid Brezhnev in the Kremlin will merely succumb to the inexorable logic of the actuarial tables. In the 16 years of Brezhnev's rule the average age of the Politburo has crept forward until it stands this year at 70, thus making the U.S.S.R. one of the oldest gerontocracies in the world...
Script and crypt have always crept menacingly side by side in Kubrick's imagination. This latest film explores the death of love in post-war (and pre-WAR) America. It depicts the horror of a people who watch their own bloody past on TV, paint a bloodier future in books and movies Kubrick's included), and sit nervously waiting to be swallowed by an inevitable, self-destructive evil...
...found I was not getting results." A Bryn Mawr graduate who always wanted to be a teacher in a big city, she successfully taught English for eleven years in a Manhattan high school. Her enthusiasm began to falter three years ago when each of her five high school classes crept above the union maximum of 34 students. Says she: "No English teacher should have five classes. If you're trying to teach kids how to read and write, you simply can't do it-that's 200 students a day." In effect, Judy gave up teaching because...