Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...completely ignored a libretto that wallowed in patriotism, and a highly melodious score. Based on a Stalin prize-winning novel, Prokofiev's Story tells of a World War II pilot who lost both legs in a crash and lived to fly again, after a harrowing, 17-day crawl behind enemy lines (enacting this scene, the opera's hero sings flat on his belly). With the composer and his wife themselves adapting the tale, the entire effort seems to have been embarrassing and painful to Prokofiev. As he had promised, he did weave a number of tuneful folk motifs...
...local schools, colleges, and universities, only Harvard remained open. With traffic slowed to a crawl, Boston authorities sent out their full task force of more than 150 snowplows. The MTA cancelled all surface feeder lines, maintaining only the subway operations...
Ticker tape drifted over Broadway in vast, swirling clots. All the way to City Hall it sifted onto the block-deep mob that surged past police barricades, shoved between cars of the motorcade, slowed the parade to a hesitant crawl. Atop the back seat of an open convertible rode Jack Kennedy, grinning, waving, reaching out to touch one after another of the forest of hands; Wife Jackie sat beside him in white coat, hat. gloves and wide-eyed wonder at the crush ("It felt like the sides of the car were bending"). Even Mayor Robert Wagner, whose good Democratic organization...
Sharp-tongued, curmudgeon-like though I am, I never said that some 20,000 fine voters in the 29th N.Y. Congressional District "every four years crawl out of their Hudson Gothic woodwork to vote for William McKinley." The crawling-out-of-woodwork metaphor was an added touch by the New York Times writer; he had an unusually fine prose style, given to flourishes which, as he might put it, bode well for a career in journalism. I did remark, sadly, how certain voters up here seem to pledge fealty every four years to William McKinley, but just...
...what I think-a hell of a lot more than any politician I know." Not that it was likely to make much difference. "If this were not a presidential year, I might have a chance," he admitted. "As it is, every four years, about 20,000 extra people crawl out of their Hudson Gothic woodwork up here to vote for William McKinley." From at least one supporter, Vidal prefers silent devotion-"Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has endorsed me, but we don't dare have her appear; the Roosevelt name is still murder up here...