Word: sneak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says, "that there is much of a railroad left." Sneak out of town on a back road, over the river, through the marshes of South Carolina, / the old road lined with abandoned "cabins for the night" and empty pickup trucks with hand-lettered signs still promising FRESH PEACHES. Back on I-95 the world narrows down to a river of concrete flowing between canyons of still leaves. Poles above the treetops display a shell, a star, double arches. The semiotics of travel...
...last minutes of the game, the icemen woke up and realized that Princeton was trying to sneak away with an upset...
...singular antecedent like everyone, something that was "nonstandard" in RHD-I. Hopefully seems a hopeless cause, a butterfly of an adverb that has turned into the caterpillar it-is-to-be-hoped, which RHD-II proclaims "fully standard." And because many people wrongly consider the past tense of sneak to be snuck (instead of sneaked), the word has been promoted from "chiefly dialect" in RHD-I to full respectability here...
...Factor wasn't enough the next weekend. Cornell did everything it needed to do against Brown in Providence. Everything, that is, except win. Brown fell short in every important statistical category, but came out on top, 23-15, thanks to a blocked punt and a 66-yard quarterback sneak...
...while petty short-sightedness dampened or destroyed all the good ideas, somebody came up with a really good idea. "Hey, let's dump it in the ocean! Yeah, that's it!" Under cover of night, garbage barges loaded with tons of trash began to sneak a couple of miles out to sea and drop their loads right into the ocean. It's like a colossal toilet. Except it doesn't flush. Some of it sinks down to the bottom--where only fish are, anyway--but a whole lot of it doesn't. It just floats around...