Word: sneak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other officials echoed this opinion and agreed that the day was exceptionally uneventful. Not a single neophyte even tried to sneak a stray mother through the line as an aid to his labors, although one lad did bring a comely feminine acquaintance into Memorial Hall and left her waiting in the east end while he went through the ceremonies...
Time in the Sun (Marie Seton). "As you watch, you are ready to believe that Eisenstein has indeed created the supreme masterpiece up-to-date of the movies." So wrote Critic Edmund Wilson in 1932 after a sneak preview of part of the 150,000 feet of film (feature length: around 8,000 ft.) which talkative, fuzzy-headed Director Sergei Michailovich Eisenstein, the Soviet Union's gift to cinema, had shot during a 14-month sojourn in Mexico...
...make matters worse, the Commissar manages to sneak in on Lorna's wave length and clutter up the air with Advance Front propaganda. Betimes Lorna squeezes in a few words, but presently one of the Commissar's agents, who has been lurking in the studio doubling as an usher, grabs her and backs out of the studio with Lorna at the point of a gun. Promptly a city-wide search is begun during which Lorna reveals her presence in a flower shop by blinking out a bit of code with the florist's neon lights. Finally released...
Sixty seconds after the opening bell, skillful, durable, ring-wise Lou Ambers was on the floor. Without any semblance of an ultimatum. Invader Jenkins began his Blitzkrieg with a sneak-punch right to the chin. In the second round, just to prove that he had a two-armed attack, the challenger bombed the champion again with a left to the jaw. In the third, it was all over. Finishing him off like a miniature Joe Louis, Jenkins blasted the crown off Ambers' whirling head. It was the first time in his eight-year career that Ambers had been knocked...
...Marseille, thus cutting off a long, rough trip around Spain. From photographs taken from a bridge in Paris, the British sea wasps for Rumania looked like 70-ft. Vospers, each mounting two 21-inch torpedo tubes, powered with three 1,150-h.p. motors and two auxiliary engines for sneak-up work at nine knots. The boats were described as intended for patrol duty in the Black Sea, but if trouble arises on the oil-bearing Danube, there too they might serve...