Word: crept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Princeton trailed early on after Hutchinson's win in the 200 free, but the Tigers slowly crept back into the lead. By the second-to-last event, the 200-yard IM, Harvard still had a chance to win the meet if it could finish in the top three spots, but Princeton's Carrington Cole touched out Harvard Co-Captain Nicole Engh for second place, clinching a back-to-back Ivy title for the Tigers...
Some balance nevertheless crept in from more liberal radio stations and newspapers. Komsomolskaya Pravda carried a front-page picture of a body under a tank and the question "Tbilisi, Baku, Vilnius, what next?" Under the headline BLOODY SUNDAY, Moscow News published a statement from 30 well-known intellectuals, including two of Gorbachev's most important former economic advisers, labeling events in Lithuania "a crime...
...there was a banging on the door. I crept up and looked through the pinhole. Two heavyset men in dirty Arab dress stood there. One of the faces seemed to stare right at me. They were studying the nameplate on the door. I had posted the name of an Egyptian friend, Amr-Al-Arabi. They muttered something to each other and left. I was elated...
...crept up on an estimated 100 million people worldwide, among them actress Mary Tyler Moore, jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie and singer Ella Fitzgerald. Because the initial symptoms (fatigue, frequent urination) are usually mild, half the 12 million Americans with diabetes do not realize they have it. Even after diagnosis, many patients fail to take diabetes as seriously as they should. "At first, everything goes along fine," sighs June Howe, a patient at Boston's Joslin Diabetes Center. "You don't realize that later on problems will...
...cites the drug crisis in particular: "It's destroyed the family. It's weakened the church." Baltimore attorney Leronia Josey blames some middle- class black Christians for getting too "comfortable." The church, she says, let others take charge of community welfare, and "in the process the drugs crept in and the girls got pregnant...