Word: slunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Herd is the word," bellowed all of the assembled Harvard cross country runners, both male and female, varsity and junior varsity. Meanwhile, the black and blue Tigers tucked their tails between their legs and slunk quietly homeward...
...stop-criticizing them. But basically this potted history of what press releases cannot seem to resist calling "three turbulent decades" of the union's history, beginning in untutored idealism and ending in equally unconscious corruption, suffers from the same flaw as do the fictions that have slunk out from under Harold Robbins' overcoat in recent years: what might be called the substitution of analogy for insight. In other words, the writers who create them seem to think it is enough to show us characters who, they suggest with a wink (or more often a brutal slam...
...birth defects of his neighbors until the tutor who lived in the entry, a music grad student, made his way cautiously up the steps in bathrobe and-ascot. He may have even intended to say something until he saw the murderous intent in Bell's eyes. Then he slunk away back downstairs, and Bell continued his ravings, which he had stopped only for the time it took to stare the tutor down, for another 25 minutes. The tutor left for Europe the next week, Bell went back into read what Safire had to say that day, and the wholesale dumping...
...rest of the country, and the rest of the country, in return, would make Popkin's clothes, take out his laundry, and grant him immunity from testifying. Popkin's interview was followed by the hockey news. While the rest of Boston became absorbed in the action, Popkin presumably slunk off to divine the truth...
...salesman, a grocery store owner, a hermit from the backwoods, a clown, a few auto mechanics, a few hell's angels, ballet dancers, policemen, the works. The photographers have haunted such honky tonk spots as Revere and Nantasket Beach, and Paragon Park. They have sunk into the ghettoes, slunk into back stage dressing rooms, and escaped into meat markets, barber shops, auction barns, trailer parks, fields and kitchens, as well as their friends' homes...