Word: sneaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...become harder and harder to have casual social gatherings in the houses. It's like trying to sneak out of your parents' house to have a party," Coffey says...
...whirlwind tour of South Korea, Japan and China, she will stress American strategic interests in Asia while walking a tricky three-way tightwire linking Seoul, Beijing and Pyongyang over the recent defection of North Korean Hwang Jang Yop to the South. In Rome, Albright gave the world a sneak preview of what she terms her "people-to-people" style of diplomacy, shaking hands with American tourists and posing for photos with French schoolchildren. Nor did her punchiness wane inside government buildings. Capitalizing on her reputation for straight talk, the Secretary of State told Italian leaders yesterday that she's disturbed...
...Martinez carefully reconstructs conversations and interviews he has had with people connected to Evita, dead or alive. These journalistic starting points facilitate flashbacks relating scenes from Evita's youth, rise to power and rapid physical decline. But which Evita is the real one: the illegitimate little girl who must sneak into her father's funeral or the demigod standing next to Peron on the balcony of the national palace...
...that had bought a big computer and didn't have to pay for it until it was debugged. In exchange for computer time, the boys' job was to try (quite successfully) to find bugs that would crash it. "Trey got so into it," his father recalls, "that he would sneak out the basement door after we went to bed and spend most of the night there...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom. --Donald Carswell '50 This piece first ran on June...