crawling

"You look out from the hillside and it's like a load of ants crawling out on to the sandbar," he said.

“He obsessed over silly details, like if the accent of the policeman hinted at his sect, or that we had a cockroach crawling over the picture of an army soldier,” Hajjo said.

Another significant finance minister told me of his global counterparts that "no one was crawling to the Americans" given the unbeatable effectiveness of the US having to negotiate with its own bond market.

Even if it wasn't crawling with commies, it was considered weak and useless in the fight against the Soviets with its diplomacy, treaties and whatnot.

"We were crawling on the ground," she recalls, holding her one-year-old son close.