Word: sneaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sneak Preview. One day last summer, the Prince Royal made his first public appearance, somewhat in the style of a Hollywood sneak preview. Without previous announcement, Baudouin sped in a car to the tomb of Belgium's unknown soldier, deposited a wreath. A dozen or so accidental bystanders were his only public. The consensus was that the princely starlet conducted himself well, but would need a lot more experience in the spotlight before he was a full-fledged royal star...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
Business School students are on the alert for a sneak thief who yesterday added three more victims to his already long list...
There's only one thing traditionally absent from Tree Day: the Sophomore banner. Anytime earlier in the year, freshmen use any ruse they can to steal the banner, including John Harvard's dressed as girls who sneak into the banner cache. The sophomores get thir banner back, though after the ceremonies...
...operating union railroad workers (telegraphers, clerks, etc.), thus blowing a hole through the wage ceiling he had put on in February. Johnston argued that 1) there were special reasons for doing so in this case, and 2) other unions wouldn't be able to sneak through the same hole. But the same special reasons seemed to apply to 1,000,000 other railworkers. Other unions whose wages are tied to cost-of-living escalator clauses were thinking up special reasons for themselves, too. The Government's attitude toward the whole touchy subject of escalator raises was becoming plainer...