Word: slunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II, the 51,656-ton German liner Bremen slunk ghostlike out of New York and ran for Europe with lights out to avoid the searching British navy. War caught up with the Bremen, and British bombing and fire reduced it to a worthless hulk in its home port of Bremerhaven. Last week a new Bremen sailed into New York harbor on her maiden voyage from Bremerhaven, and the lights went on again for North German Lloyd, West Germany's biggest passenger-shipping company...
...Greenfield's "Jungle Drums" dance was easily the most spectacular feat of the evening. requiring amazing subtleties of rhythm and control. And "Le Petit Mal De La Jeunesse," a portrait of teenagers today, danced by Penny Carver, Elizabeth Theiler, and Tom Glick, took the entertainment honors. The trio slid, slunk, crumpled and twitched to the beat of a jazz ensemble and Mark Mirsky's narrative...
...only express (from my dark corner) my gratitude for its paternal indulgence of its wayward sons. I refer, of course, to a recent CRIMSON story reporting what our Housemasters think of those sorry seniors who shut out from their lives the golden world of the Houses and who slunk into the drafty and frosty holes that are the private dwellings of Cambridge...
...SLUNK with a shy smile into the embassy drawing room. The smoke-filled hall was an epitome of sophistication, dark suits, military uniforms, low-cut dowdy dresses, foreign correspondents with R.A.F. moustaches, and a large contingent of nervous Egyptian diplomats. It was possible in a flash to spot where the important people were gathered, for not an American or foreign correspondent was in immediate sight-it is only necessary at these affairs to track the Moscow press like sucker fish to locate the big sharks at once. I went into the next room. Suddenly, as if the smoke...
...Frontenac, Kans., City Clerk Tony Getto expected a shower of protests when the water supply was cut off briefly to repair the municipal plant, but while not a single customer telephoned to complain, one man slunk in to pay his bill...