Word: sneaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sneak attackers were units of the Viet Cong 9th Division, and their quarry was an 1,110-man force of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division's 1st Brigade, which was setting up a powerful artillery base at Suoi Kut, only seven miles from the Cambodian border. The Communists hoped to even an old score: last March the men of the 1st Brigade had killed 647 soldiers of the 9th Division at nearby Suoi Tre in the biggest single one-day victory of the war. The Viet Cong also hoped to catch the 1st unprepared, since the U.S. infantrymen...
...Sneaked Stills. As luck-and medicine-would have it, neither network got in. The Blaiberg operation came up too fast, and Barnard barred all film crews from the operation. A Cape Town fashion photographer, posing as a medical student, did sneak into the operating-room observation gallery and grabbed some stills; NBC attorneys got a temporary injunction prohibiting him from "selling or disposing" of them. A doctor who had brought his subminiature camera into the operation also took a few pictures but handed them over to Barnard after a reprimand...
Northeastern, however, managed to hold its slim lead. Osgood dribbled away the clock, dropping in free throws every so often. Harvard had one last burst--on Beller's free throw and Gallagher's tip-in--but the Huskies scored a sneak-away layup at the buzzer...
...minute later, at 8:58, Jack Turco's attempt to sneak the puck into the cage corner was blocked, but he punched his own rebound to the far side for a 2-0 lead...
...Lyndon Johnsons, for example, usually catch NBC's Today show at 7 a.m. every weekday morning. In the evening, Lady Bird tries to sneak in Gunsmoke if she can. The President likes to watch the suppertime news reports simultaneously on his three-set console, and on Sundays samples Meet the Press (NBC), Face the Nation (CBS) and Issues and Answers (ABC). What he sees there very often is his own Vice President; Hubert Humphrey has been the guest on the three programs 36 times. When Humphrey does get on the other side of the screen, it is to watch...