Word: sneaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assign his photographer to sneak pictures in the Episcopal Cathedral's Hall of Bishops in Atlanta, where pastors and church ladies gathered for an integrated meeting of the Georgia Council of Churches...
Louisiana's Passman was piqued at the leak because, he said, it would give "top-echelon people downtown more time to conduct their unprecedented pressure campaign for more money." Translation: he had hoped to sneak the cuts through the full Appropriations Committee next day, before the Eisenhower Administration got a chance to renew its all-out fight for an adequate aid program...
From a conversation he overheard in the mess hall, he knew that the Dutch air force C-47 standing outside was about to take off for Australia. He tried to sneak aboard but found the plane door locked. As he circled the plane, looking for a place to hide, he spotted the two nacelle cavities that house the big wheels when the plane is in flight. He climbed up, crouched among the upper struts of one of the cavities and, praying he would not be discovered, waited for the takeoff...
...detect, said he, and the only way to be sure of detection would be to get a complete "opening up of Russia." Nuclear production would be even harder to inspect because of the great possibilities for cheating, e.g., by faking plant accidents and "shutting down" inspected plants while sneak war production went...
There Pierre discovered the excitement of chemistry. Fascinated, he was soon spending his weekends poring over the science exhibits in Paris' "Discovery Palace." Later, at the three-year Welding Institute of the Ministry of Education, he spent every spare moment cramming chemistry, texts, managed to sneak in 15 minutes of study before school and 15 minutes at lunchtime. With a near photographic memory, he had no trouble with his welding courses. Says he: "All I have to do is take the dictation down, and I remember...