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Word: sneaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with multiple warheads, or MIRVS, and the number of warheads per type of ICBM. Those combined limits left the Soviets with an approximately 5-to-2 edge in land-based ballistic warheads. They also left them with enough of those warheads to raise the theoretical possibility of a crippling sneak attack against American ICBMs. Land-based missiles are the most menacing of all nuclear weapons because they are the most accurate and the most plausible instruments of a pre-emptive attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing for the Future | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...sneak up to the Tribune building at night with my duffel bag. It is very dangerous to be a long-haired kid from out of state on the streets. They are still arresting people. I meet Parker [Donham '67('69) of The Boston Globe] and James Glassman ['69 of the Herald Traveler] in the Times office. Glassman gives me his suit coat so we won't get stopped. Parker drives us to the airport. And we take off out of there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weathermen're Shot, They're Bleeding, They're Running, They're Wiping Stuff Out | 4/9/1983 | See Source »

...Cheever story O Youth and Beauty!), Gurney is writing a play that he hopes will take on bigger and more tragic proportions than his 16 slight, mostly short stage works to date. Says he: "When I start writing a script, it always seems serious. But some how the pratfalls sneak in, and then I fight to keep them." His upbringing, he believes, has provided more than simply the raw material of his scripts: "I think it was the very fact that these tight rules were imposed that made me turn to drama, where the rules are also tight. I learned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Elegy for the Declining Wasp | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

Despite the mood of melancholy resignation, the kelpers remain grateful for the British presence. "They are far more concerned about the Argies," says Councilor John Cheek. "People here worry about a sneak air raid or a commando landing. To prevent that, they'll put up with almost anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: A Melancholy Anniversary | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

Attaché Campione quickly agreed. Over the Christmas holiday he developed a plan to sneak Lombino out of the U.S. and into Italy so that Lombino could talk with Restelli. Since Lombino was still a fugitive with no passport, the Italian official had to concoct a new identity for him. With the Fat Man's aid, Lombino acquired the Social Security number of an unwitting high school driver's education instructor from Brooklyn, while a cooperative priest in Manhattan provided him with false baptism records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Fat Man, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

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