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Word: sneak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...different story at Camden. Jockey Eddie Arcaro (TIME, May 17), who came down to ride, said of Citation: "It's fun. I didn't have much confidence in him the day he won the Derby. Now I play a little game-I let those other horses sneak up pretty close, then I cluck to him. Wow! You can feel the power. What a gangbuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of Calumet | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...four sneak previews, audiences liked what they saw. Cracked Glass: "We are now solidly in a position to finance another million-dollar picture, but we haven't got a nickel for a cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: How to Finance a Movie | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Head Start. When he got back, Cole was waiting for him with a contract for his song. Capitol made a sneak recording of it, backing Cole's voice with a rich, fluty orchestral accompaniment. Fascinated by its haunting melody (it sounds something like an old Marlene Dietrich special), disc jockeys in three weeks have played it into No. 3 on Variety's jukebox hit parade. Other record companies last week scrambled to catch up. Unable to use Petrillo's men, Columbia recorded Frank Sinatra against a chorus of singers; Decca did the same with Dick Haymes. Nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nature Boy from Brooklyn | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...taking place.The image was transferred from tube to film by a special photographic and developing process, then "fed continuously to a projector and flashed to the screen. The whole converting operation (tube-to-film-to-screen) took only 66 seconds. Images were bright and well-defined, and the sneak preview was hailed by all who saw it. The mere mention of Brooklyn brought such a storm of cheers, however, that most of the audience missed the explanation and thought the telecast was a newsreel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Busy Air, Apr. 26, 1948 | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Meanwhile, in what was supposed to be a seven inning game, Dunster's inspired softball unit picked three runs in the last of the seventh to tie Adams 6 to 6 and in the ninth tallied once to sneak off with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Late Surges Win House Ball Games | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

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