Word: sneak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...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...
...boarded an air-conditioned bus on June 28, hoping to join the mounting exodus from their overcrowded, violence-torn country. About July 2, they reached the border at the southwest corner of Arizona. They were being shepherded by four or five Salvadoran and Mexican "coyotes"-men who sneak aliens across the border for as much as $2,000 each...
...some observers, the militia leaders appear to have the morals of Mafia dons. The Phalangists' sneak attack was reminiscent of a raid they made in June 1978 on still another Christian faction, the one led by former Lebanese President Suleiman Franjieh. In that attack, Franjieh's eldest son Tony, as well as Tony's wife and infant daughter, was slain by Phalangist gunmen. In their assault on the National Liberals last week, the Phalangists seized and burned the home of Dany Chamoun, the son of the party leader and the commander of the group's militia...
Three years ago, Associate Editor Gerald Clarke attended a sneak movie preview in San Francisco with hundreds of screaming children, a few science-fiction buffs and the creator of the film in question, George Lucas. Clarke emerged from the theater to urge that TIME'S editors schedule a major story about "a movie you have to love." Clarke's article appeared soon after, previewing a film that was to receive a tidal wave of national attention: Star Wars, the fun-and-fantasy space opera that became the most financially successful motion picture ever made...