Word: crept
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Then fire engines, police cars, ambulances and taxicabs began drawing up. Emergency floodlights bathed the shattered cars in an unearthly brilliance. Cops, firemen and workmen with big jacks scrambled toward the cars; doctors and nurses crept and crawled up ladders and into the wreckage, hypodermic needles in hand. Welders began to create their blinding cascades of sparks while firemen sprayed water past them to keep trapped humans from, burning. A jostling crowd gathered, a sound truck began rasping out commands...
...years ago General Education stopped being just another department in the College. In line with the policy of sacrificing highly technical assortments of fact before the altar of overall widespread knowledge, the general education influence crept into other fields, notably the social sciences...
...Vermont hills about Ripton, the red fires of autumn smoldered on the swamp maples and sumac, crept inward from branch tips, inched downward into the valley where the river brawls through the gorge. From a slab-wood cabin with its back set firmly against the valley's shoulder, cooking his own meals and dependent on no man, 76-year-old Poet Robert Frost last week faced the world. It is the vantage point he likes best...
Right at the beginning of the term, his total turnover was one or two books a day. It has crept up gradually so that he now collects an average of six or eight books in a morning's run, but that is still not a very encouraging total...
...unit's heroes was a Japanese-American corporal named Hideo Hashimoto, who had spent World War II in a Japanese internment camp in the U.S. Hashimoto, a right-handed pitcher for his regimental baseball team, had crept out on the edge of the ridge, hurled grenade after grenade with deadly accuracy at the advancing Reds. In one attack, Hashimoto was throwing grenades at Red troops less than 20 yards away. When he ran out of grenades, Hashimoto pitched rocks...