Word: sneakingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Partisan detachments and pack animals in pokret, often camouflaged by green branches tied on their backs, sneak through the wilderness in single file, some times stretching out several miles. Every man must shout, "Veza!" (Contact!) when he loses sight of the man in front or behind. Orders are continually passed from mouth to mouth along the Indian file. Our first pokret covered 25 miles of wilderness in 14 hours at night...
...also loves to sneak up on fellow reporters in the dead of night, scare the day lights out of them with a belch which has been favorably compared with the bark of a French 75. There are probably still some G.I.s who would not give their last cigaret or blanket to Ernie Pyle. But nothing that any G.I. can scrounge from another is too good...
From the outskirts American troops could hear the Germans setting off demolition charges. One night the Nazis tried to sneak valuable technicians and equipment out in seven merchant ships. British torpedo boats caught them, sank two, damaged three more, chased the convoy to shelter in the Channel Islands...
...Alexander Fleming and penicillin you neglected to mention the grandmothers who used that remedy constantly in the early days when doctors were not an everyday luxury. I remember, when I was a very little girl and grandmother stayed at our house, how she would sort of guiltily and secretly sneak away a piece of bread when no one was looking, add it to her crock of penicillin (it was not known by that name then). She kept up her laboratory in that crock, so there was a remedy for every emergency. Grandmas were wonderful doctors in those days...
Blazed Cantor: "I'm blazing mad at fellows who tell you it's all right and then sneak around...