Word: inchworm
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...economy forever operating like an inchworm--with a hump for the 'boom' and a glide for the 'bust,'" Porter declared...
...object of his attack on the cyclical audience of more than 500 persons at the theory was Malcolm P. McNair, professor of marketing at the Business School, who first used the "inchworm" analogy in support of his conservative "do nothing" policy...
Ryder compared himself to an inchworm revolving at the end of a twig, but for all his groping indecision his moonlit fantasies are spacious and simple in design. They reflect his eccentricities (he once proposed marriage to a neighbor the first time he met her because he liked the tone of her violin), his essentially happy life, spent doing what he most wanted to do. "The artist," Ryder once said, "needs but a roof, a crust of bread and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance...
...members were shown another fundamental way to get up a rock--the layback, a rather novel way of lying back against the cliff while holding on to next to nothing, and hitching along like an inchworm...