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Word: sneaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wuhan, where the steel mills have slowed to part-time operation, a month's rice ration lasts barely three days, sugar is issued only four times a year, and housewives try to thicken watery gruel by adding grass. Hungry people from Tientsin sneak into the fields at night to steal corn from the stalks, and Kwangtung villagers are reportedly eating bark from the trees. Among the fantastic mountain shapes of Kweilin spread even more fantastic rumors: the sour-tasting new soy sauce is said to be made from human hair. In Peking, when the first fish to arrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Loss of Man | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...fourth quarter the Crimson held back Dartmouth and got the ball on its own 15 yard line. Harvard drove 56 yards and Casgar completed a 20-yard pass to Gray on Dartmouth's nine-yard line, and then carried the ball over the goal line on a quarterback sneak. The kick attempt was blocked. The final game score was Harvard 13, Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson, Jayvee Football Squad Downs Dartmouth Eleven, 13-12 | 10/28/1961 | See Source »

...forces are so deployed and protected that a sneak attack could not effectively disarm us. The destructive power which the United States could bring to bear even after a Soviet surprise attack would be as great as-perhaps greater than-the total undamaged force which the enemy can threaten to launch against the United States in a first strike. In short, we have a second-strike capability which is at least as extensive as what the Soviets can deliver by striking first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: OUR REAL STRENGTH | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...Blue" attacking force of the 3rd Battle Group of the 6th Infantry Division scored in a sneak amphibious attack on the defending "Reds" of the 2nd Battle Group when they maneuvered three miles up the Havel River, hit the Reds from the rear. Next day, the Reds counterattacked with a massive firecracker barrage simulating an air and artillery offensive witnessed by General Lucius D. Clay, President Kennedy's representative in Berlin. Said Clay: "This was a well-laid maneuver. Everyone took it seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: Ever Ready | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...slow, his passing mediocre, Hornung was used only sparingly in Packer games, was permitted to call only five specific plays. "In one game," he recalls, "a player saw me coming in and yelled, 'Look who's here-rollout right or left, option right or left, or quarterback sneak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Indispensable Man | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

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