Word: sneakingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does remain that prompt publicity and recommendations on thefts whose seriousness was apparent so long ago as February might conceivably have forestalled Parkhurst's streak. Meanwhile, noting down of serial numbers is even now no mere locking of the barn, since no cessation of sneak thievery is contemplated by the Yard cops. Possibly, in view of this fact, authorities enamoured of Harvard's exercise of autonomous control of her affairs, and frightened of the glare headline, will not attempt to win their battle while losing the students' campaign...
Quickly taking the ball on downs after the fracas was resumed, the Jayvees began to roll up mileage with embarrassing speed. The scoring honors on this run went to quarterback Stone, who took the ball on a sneak for the final score...
...feature was Kitty Foyle, knov/n in Berlin as Fräulein Kitty. Couples strolled toward the Kronen Lichtspiele in search of a few laughs, an occasional tear, and the chance to forget Germany. They did not find what they were looking for. U.S. Information Control was trying a Hollywood sneak preview on Germans. The substitute picture was Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator...
Swaggering Sneak. On the night of Jan. 6, with the murders of Miss Brown and Mrs. Ross behind him, George came swaggering into Bill's room and made him help plan the murder of little Suzanne Degnan. Then he made Bill give him the paper on which the ransom note was written. Bill sweated with anxiety all night, and the next morning there it was in the papers...
Japanese nightcrawlers, toward the end of the war, often crawled in vain. They would sneak toward U.S. lines, trusting the friendly night. Then out of the silent darkness, a well-aimed bullet would pick them off. Could U.S. snipers see in the dark? Last week, the Army said yes and told...