Word: seeping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accident caused a valve on the truck to open and gasoline began to seep...
...Meanwhile, one gift that just keeps on giving ? media attention ? has started to seep through the walls of the humble McCaughey abode. Two-year-old Mikayla, the septuplets' elder sister, "shrieked with joy" when she saw her grandmother reading a pile of magazines with her parents' faces on the cover. Next question: What did Newsweek do to mommy's teeth...
Call it trickle-down politics. No one realized in 1984 that the Reagan Revolution would eventually seep down and destroy liberalism in its safest sanctuaries. But the Reagan deficits, and the critique of government spending they bolstered, led to a steep decline in federal aid to urban areas, from $64 per city resident in 1980 to $29 in 1993. The inability to spend money has reached America's big cities, and it has done to liberalism there what it did to national liberalism a decade ago. To survive, mayors have had to either find new sources of money...
...Democratic intelligentsia, including women who had joined the Administration in large part because of her. A top Administration woman says of the First Lady, "She doesn't travel with her peers." Says Morris: "She's very headstrong and very stubborn, and ultimately very brittle." Her bitterness would occasionally seep out. At the Democratic Convention she told the Arkansas delegation that a friend had told her she would have everything but the kitchen sink thrown at her. "Well," she said, "I just...
...surgical assistant uses a razor to make tiny pinpricks along the entire length of each skin strip, Himel explains, "Pinpricks will allow the fluids and blood to seep out and any bacterial growth to leave the wound...