Word: sneaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lincoln-Pruitt Anti-Rape Device," a cynical tale of women fighting in combat-ridden Vietnam, contains a few passing references to "a gay friend of mine who does props for the Met." Bendel's department store, the "Hers" column, Jerzy Kosinski, Brearley and, yes, the Fly Club manage to sneak into the collection's other stories...
...been unthinkable for a national candidate not long ago, and even today gay rights is a subject so highly charged that most politicians would prefer to stay in the closet on the issue. "Sure we weighed the pros and cons," a Mondale aide says. "But you can't sneak around on any issue any more...
Begin responded well, agreeing with the proposal for us to meet on Mount Sinai. He then reminded us that it had also taken courage to invite Sadat to Jerusalem?the commanding officer of the nation that had launched a sneak attack on Israel only five years earlier in the October War of 1973, killing thousands of Israeli troops. The hospitality with which Sadat had been received by the people of Israel showed the depth of their desire for peace, Begin said...
...current undergraduate to picture: a place where the students seemed to be in perpetual rage and confusion over miscarriages of social justice. Remembering a furtive meeting to plot a demonstration against Robert S. McNamara's 1966 visit to Quincy House, Kornbluth recalls "trying to figure out some way to sneak human limbs out of the lab so we could throw them at McNamara and rejecting all suggestions that we settle for bones from the butcher shop and chicken blood--'no symbols,' I said." There are always wild-eyed revolutionaries at Harvard, but this was the vice-president of the staid...
...they would deliver records to black hotels that had juke boxes in the rooms. My father would give me all the old 78s. When I was a teen-ager he got me a work permit so I could work clubs. He knew I'd sneak out and not go to school anyway. So rather than have me get a prison record, he'd just say, 'Well, go ahead and do it if you're going to do it.' I went on tour in the South at 16 with bands like Frankie Ford and Jimmy Clanton...