Word: sneaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a safety had added two points in the final period, Tom Kelly took a short pass from Finney to the five, and set up a quarterback sneak for the score. A short end run by George Yazejian in the closing minutes made...
...Koreans seemed to want to do anything to please. Old men ran out with South Korean flags. Women came forward with their hands up and smiling. The civilians of Inchon combed the city for known Communists, led U.S. troops to their hideouts, pointed out enemy soldiers who tried to sneak away with civilian clothes over their uniforms...
Soon after he bought the Roney Plaza in 1943, Owner Schine discovered that the place was creeping with "sneak bookies," who hung around picking up bets where they could find them. As the orderly owner of a real classy hotel, he knew this was a situation which should be corrected-what the Roney Plaza needed was a reliable, responsible bookie, not a bunch of fly-by-nights. So Myer Schine eventually made a deal with Frank Erickson, the Mr. Big of U.S. bookmaking, who went to jail after a Senate subcommittee got through with him (TIME, July 3). Schine gave...
...rafts and pontoon bridges. Again the South Koreans, now short of weapons of any sort, wavered and broke, and the Communists pushed on. Meanwhile, U.S. jets and F82 Twin Mustangs were beginning to shoot down Yaks and knock out some of the enemy armor. The Yaks retaliated by destructive sneak attacks on Suwon's airstrip...
...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...