Word: sneak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon on Friday, heavy U.S. ships were pounding Japanese-held sections of Okinawa's shore when the red-balled planes flashed in to attack. From a small landing boat TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod watched a twin-engined Jap bomber sneak over a hillside and head into the fleet, apparently picking out a transport near Sherrod's craft as its intended victim. Sherrod radioed...
...their supervisors, old names for Mooseheart staff members-sluefoot, screw, night-caller, supreme being, walking tree-have died. An increase of tolerance has presumably caused the disappearance of such words as fish and fisheater (both meaning Catholic), and aquarium (a Catholic priest's home). Also gone are smutch (sneak-out), squirrel (psychologist, i.e., one who looks for "nuts...
When the hero tries to sneak out to keep a date with a girl he does like, the boss locks him in. When he does succeed in getting near enough to a girl to make a pass, she bloodies his nose for his unfaithfulness to his overpublicized "fiancee." When he goes to a newsreel theater to see what they have made of him ("Hero of the Week," the billboard bellows) and can't keep his opinions on his stomach, an infuriated civilian turns in the dark and cracks...
German propaganda landed another sneak punch last week, in its long and skillful fight to shatter Allied unity...
...original picture bore out, in some eleven reels, this bitter preface. After being dubiously received at a sneak preview it was drastically cut, by Sturges, according to the desires of his employers. In its present mutilated nine-reel state, the picture will probably do its best service if it interests cinemaddicts in reading the book on which it is based...