Word: sneakingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only real comic, Nightclub Singer Pearl Bailey, has the lumbering slink and lusty humor to turn two sex-salted ditties, Legalize My Name and A Woman's Prerogative into near showstoppers. The show's boisterous finale, with a frenzied crowd perched on rooftops and stepladders for a sneak-view of Augie's big race, has freshness, bounce. Lemuel Ayers's sets and costumes have musicomedy splash and color. But the audience, to earn its candy, has to get down a full plateful of spinach...
Always Coolidge tried to sneak away from his guard. "On awakening in the morning he would walk across the upstairs hallway to the Lincoln Room in his long nightgown and slippers. There he would peek out the window to see whether I was on the lawn. ... If he did not see me, he would have Brooks telephone downstairs to ask if I were in the building. . . . Sometimes he would tell the elevator operator to take him to the basement. Then he would try to sneak out the East or the West entrance, just to fool me. Everyone on the staff...
...memorandum was placed in evidence showing that Captain Zacharias had personally warned Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, in the summer of 1941, that the Japs would start war with a sneak air raid on Pearl Harbor on a weekend-"probably Sunday morning...
...error, of inference and deduction, cryptographers had duplicated the decoding devices used in Tokyo. Testimony before the Pearl Harbor Committee had already shown that the machine-known in Army code as "Magic"-was in use long before Dec. 7, 1941, had given ample warning of the Jap's sneak attack-if only U.S. brass hats had been smart enough to realize it (TIME, Dec. 10). Now General Marshall continued the story of "Magic's" magic...
...Neither Army nor Navy Intelligence placed any credence in a report from Tokyo by Ambassador Grew, in January 1941, that the Peruvian Minister had learned "from many sources, including a Japanese source" that the Japs planned to open the war with a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. (Intelligence officers somehow figured out that no Jap in a position to know would be so stupid...