Word: crept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peep-show porn is not the only bad influence, according to some commissioners. Several panelists are equally troubled by the sexually sadistic aesthetic that has crept into general-market films, such as Dressed to Kill and the more recent 9 1/2 Weeks. Commission Member Park Dietz, who teaches at the University of Virginia Law School, believes that film and television scenes portraying women in violent situations are "every bit as harmful as anything in the adults-only establishments...
...what was going on. He looked at me and said, "This isn't him?" gesturing with his eyes at the man he was talking to. The man was older, Black, and carrying a torn paper bag. "No, go up there... The bank is there, up the street." The cruiser crept away, braking again well before it reached the bank. I gave...
Cornell's Joe Nieuwendyk--with 14 goals and 17 assists--snatched third-place from Smith. And RPI's John Carter (14 goals, 12 assists) crept in front of Barakett into fifth place...
Pressing full-court with a 2-1-2 alignment and then dropping off into man-to-man coverage, the Crimson crept back into the game. Six straight points by forward Phillips brought the cagers to within four, and another Harvard six-point run closed...
...rich. "Our government promotes the policy that some will get rich first," says Du Runsheng, the top party adviser on rural affairs. "Then others will get rich. Our final goal is that all people will be rich." The words kuaile, or pleasure, and yule, or recreation, have crept back into the national vocabulary. "Only with an adequate amount of wining and dining, fun and games," says an editor of the China Youth Daily, "will the workers' productive power be restored...