Word: sneaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life has become intensified. He focuses more on family than ever before. He observes that a good marriage will be strengthened by such a calamity, but a bad one tends to get worse, and his was good. He is closer to all three children. "I used to sneak away in the mornings and train my horse. I wouldn't give the children the attention they deserved. All these missed connections," he says...
...prepared to respond on a reactionary basis," Gillis says. "If we receive information that there is the possibility of a terrorist attack, we can do something, but as far as preventing a sneak attack, it's very difficult...
Experts caution too that what security measures do exist here drape passengers in an illusion of safety. The reality is that U.S. airports have no systematic way of screening for explosives that a terrorist might want to sneak aboard an aircraft. Metal detectors might miss plastics or liquids used to assemble a bomb, as might bored, poorly paid and poorly trained operators of X-ray machines. At some U.S. airports, including Kennedy, checked-in luggage for international flights is sniffed by specially trained dogs or scanned by electronic vapor-particle detectors that can locate explosives. But if the explosives...
Okay, so what do I do? Do I just sit back, relax, let old age sneak up behind me and KAPOW!, I'm watching "Matlock?" Do I fight it by regression--dust off my old G.I. Joes and restart the never-ending combat with Cobra? Do I run to stay in place, or as John Cougar Mellencamp put it, "hold on to 16 as long...
...started off with promise and went downhill from there. Along the way, there was heartbreak coupled with disappointment. But in the end, the 1995 Harvard football season ended in glorious fashion with a thrilling win over Yale, providing a sneak preview into what could be a bright future...