Word: crept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...streets of Seoul for three successive days last week. Screaming antigovernment slogans, the demonstrators rammed barricades with commandeered buses and clashed with club-swinging riot police. Clouds of tear gas hung over Chongro, one of the city's busiest commercial streets, as army troops in armored personnel carriers crept up in case they were needed to back up beleaguered police. One policeman was killed, while scores of both police and students were seriously injured. Hundreds of other protesters were arrested, many of them none too gently. The trouble subsided after student leaders agreed to suspend the demonstrations to give...
After Predun whipped in an unassisted score to finish his hat trick and the period, Brown crept close at the 1:41 mark of the final quarter with Handelman scoring his only goal of the contest...
...they turned into windy cliffs under a full moon. Look at the moonbow, said Sammy, counting the colors. I wish we had a tape recorder, said Rick, shivering in the silence. Grotesque elephant rocks lumbered into view. Sammy looked at the road, the dotted center line, but the shadows crept across the windshield. I don't want to sleep, said Rick. Tough, said Sammy. They fought...
...snow slowly crept into the huge stadium where fans will sit to watch the start and finish of cross-country and biathlon events, the taciturn Fletcher smiled. "It was a big job, but we did it." The British biathlon team manager offered a more eloquent summation: "When you think of it, it's a modern miracle. They've made all the snow for an Olympic Games...
...previous night he was wearing blue pinstripes, but this morning he appeared in an embroidered white cotton shirt called a guayabera. Waving and smiling in the blazing sunshine, the candidate bounded onto an orange sightseeing bus, and the seven-vehicle motorcade lurched off toward city hall. As the procession crept along the traffic-snarled Las Americas Expressway, the candidate began booming out "Buenos días" from the open bus door to motorists and pedestrians along the way. Some waved and some yelled back, but a good many just stared, startled by this manifestation of that peculiar ritual, the American...