Word: crept
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only a tiny rise (.02%), but what cost $1 back in 1947-49 now costs $1.26½. The department bases its index on about 300 items-food, clothing, durable goods, services-but it was primarily the higher cost of food that sent the index up. Prices have crept up 1.6% in the past year, while the gross national product has shot up much more. In the second quarter of 1960, according to new figures last week, the U.S. economy produced goods and services at an annual rate of $505 billion, well above a year ago (see chart...
...Wisconsin weeklies (planted by the unofficial Square Deal for Humphrey Committee and promptly disowned by Humphrey). Nearing the end, Humphrey even lost his voice but rigorous throat sprays saved the day. Kennedy continued his cool campaigning, but the mid-campaign cleansweep predictions were revised, bets were hedged, and apprehension crept into the Kennedy camp in proportion to the rising confidence that seized Humphrey...
...peace and Communist Chinese practice could be seen in South Viet Nam, the non-Communist half of Viet Nam, where a nasty little jungle war has been going on almost since "peace" was agreed to in 1954. In their boldest stroke in four years, Communist Viet Minh guerrillas crept into a Viet Nam army regimental headquarters northwest of Saigon. Planting time bombs, they withdrew until the bombs went off, then charged from three sides, killed 34 soldiers, and made off with large amounts of arms and ammunition...
When Toronto's Geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson recently crossed the border, he found that it took five hours. After the Russians had switched the train wheels at Otpor to fit China's narrower-gauge tracks, he reported: "The train crept forward in the dark toward the actual border. It was brilliantly floodlit. Soldiers with rifles and fixed bayonets were on guard...
...Bear Hunt. Three months ago Niviaksiak and a young companion were tracking a bear. After several hours they finally caught sight of him. As they crept closer, the bear, instead of running, turned and gazed squarely at them. Niviaksiak moved in, raised his rifle to fire, then faltered and shrieked: "It's dark. I'm falling!" Without firing, he collapsed on the snow, died within minutes...