Word: sneak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took just a few moments into the first-period for the Crimson to display its new strength. Attacking the Big Green defense, the icewomen kept the pressure on Dartmouth goalie Kristen Bjork. The sophomore goalie finally cracked, allowing a Carroll shot to sneak by at the 7.17 mark...
...Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum used the threat of filibuster to block a host of self-serving bills of the kind that special interests try to sneak through at the end of a hectic session. As Rhode Island Republican John Chafee graphically described the process: "You can almost hear the hogs moving up to the trough-slurp, slurp, slurp." Among them were bills that would weaken regulation of beer distributors, doctors and lawyers, and the National Football League. None passed...
With the MX on the back burner, the U.S. should concentrate in the near term on building up its conventional forces and its more purely retaliatory weapons systems like cruise missiles, which are too slow to threaten a sneak attack. Reagan himself, in presenting his START proposal, has argued that ICBM warheads, because they can be hurled at their targets so quickly, are potential first-strike weapons and therefore destabilizing, while slower-flying cruise missiles and bombers enhance stability. Some of the money allocated for Dense Pack would be better spent on what Reagan calls "slow-flyers" in the next...
...Goulding, another former aide, testified that Wilson had threatened to kill Goulding's wife if Goulding returned to the U.S. and cooperated with investigators. He also entertained the jury with a vivid description of Wilson's childlike delight when, after a two-year effort, he managed to sneak an M-16 into Libya. Wilson, said Goulding, "was very, very happy, literally roaring with laughter," as he handed the rifle to a Libyan official, who gave it "a full-function test out of the window of his office, a full clip of 30 rounds...
...Crimson then scored what turned out to the game-winner when Diane Hurley managed to sneak the puck past Bjork at the 11:20 point of the second stanza. With assists from Liz Ward and Newell. Hurley skated down the left side of the rink and took the shot off a well-led pass from Newell...