Word: sneak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...electoral votes, more than any of his three competitors. But his failure to gain an outright majority threw the election into the House of Representatives, where Henry Clay--a distant fourth-place finisher in the initial balloting--donated his votes to John Quincy Adams, allowing the New Englander to sneak off with the keys to the White House...
Auteri slipped up the middle and over the end line on a quarterback sneak, but an illegal procedure call nullified the score and sent South back to the six yard line. Rolling right on the next down, Auteri hit tried-and-true tight end John Cheney on the left sideline for the score. A failed two point conversion attempt left the mythical scoreboard registering the game's 6-0 final...
...right back and engineered a methodical ten-play, 94-yd. drive. Buckley's quick pass over the middle to halfback Paul Scheper for 30 yards on a crucial third-and-two play gave the Crimson the ball on the Army 11 and set up Buckley's one-yd. quarterback sneak that put Harvard ahead, 15-0, with the third quarter exactly half over. A two-point conversion attempt failed...
Robbins has conceived passage after passage of insights like this, most of them capped off by similes that reel under the weight of overwriting. Unable to resist the opportunity to sneak in a comparison wherever it will or will not fit, Robbins allows himself to write these words: "Leigh-Cheri took a swig from the bottle.... She felt as if she were Saturday night television and there were an orchestra up her nose...
...effort to sneak McNamara past the crowd, institute officials had Allison sit in a car at the Quincy House Master's garage on DeWolfe St. It took a couple hundred of the eager demonstrators some time before they realized the car's occupant was not defense secretary Robert McNamara, but loyal Institute official Graham Allison...