Word: sneak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scenario. William Hyland, a longtime strategic specialist for the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations and now a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, fears that World War III might begin not as World War II did, with a Nazi blitzkrieg in the West and a Japanese sneak attack in the East, but as World War I did, with a combination of bumbling, inadvertence, events getting out of control and just plain bad luck. Says he: "If there is ever a nuclear war, it will be like August 1914?a gradual losing of control. There would be rival...
...piece for The New Republic prior to the publication of The Kennedy Imprisonment, observed that popular response to the tape revelation was surprisingly muted: there was almost no outcry at all. Kennedy taped because he was by nature a historian, some explained, not because he was paranoid or a sneak. What was a sin in someone else became a virtue in Kennedy. Exasperated at this double standard, Wills could only wonder it "the strange emotional investment that many people have in the Kennedy myth." Clearly, people do not like to be told that their super-heroes are scumbags...
...leaked to the Washington Post of what Secretary of State Alexander Haig said privately to his senior staff over the course of a year, the most memorable was his description of the British Foreign Secretary. He called Lord Carrington a "duplicitous bastard." The Post was so proud of its sneak look at what it called the "unvarnished Haig" that it devoted about 300 sq. in. of one day's paper to Haig's "private and apparently candid pronouncements." It proved a damp squib...
...campus knows you've got the advantage. Your friends know and expect you to win. Your opponent knows and plays with reckless abandon. The door into a squash court may be small and camouflaged, but it's not like you can put on the other team's colors and sneak your familiarity with the courts in through it. There's a lot of pressure playing at home and it makes risks--you've got to take risks to win in squash--more dangerous...
...shorter distances will be picking up the valuable second and third places that Boston College, Northeastern and Tufts could conceivably steal from the Harvard thinclads. In the hurdles and long jump, look for freshman record-holder Mariquita "Skeets" Patterson to sneak into a few top places, and for speedy Marjorie Charoun and Kathy Busby to do the same in the dashes. Also expected to turn in stellar performances are yardling Jenny Stricker--who took the Ivy League cross-country laurels and who will be running in her first 400-meter event of the season--and sophomore Grace de Fries...