Word: crept
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...Camouflaged by its very familiarity, the water problem has crept up on a world distracted by fears of global warming and other emergent environmental threats. Yet water could be the first resource that puts a limit on human population and economic growth. Shortfalls of water will mean shortfalls of food, since up to three-quarters of the fresh water that humanity uses goes for agriculture. Moreover, contaminated drinking water in heavily populated areas endangers the health of hundreds of millions of people. According to the United Nations, 40,000 children die every day, many of them the victims...
Prejean's guilt was never in dispute. Early on the morning of July 2, 1977, Louisiana state trooper Donald Cleveland stopped Prejean and his brother Joseph on a routine traffic violation. As Cleveland began to frisk the argumentative Joseph, Dalton crept behind the car, pulled out a pistol and fired two shots into the trooper's head. Prejean had also killed a taxi driver during an aborted robbery when he was 14. "I'm not bloodthirsty," insisted the officer's widow Candy Cleveland the morning before the execution. "But what kind of person am I supposed to be? I have...
...Finally, Heartbreak Hill loomed before me. I broke it up into little pieces--16 steps running with my hamstring muscles, 16 steps with my quads, hamstrings, quads, hamstrings. I powered up the whole hill without stopping, and when I got to the top, a half-dazed smile crept onto my face. I had beaten the monster of the Boston Marathon...