Word: sneakingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northern New Jersey, OPA officials gave up trying to enforce the pleasure-driving ban; inspectors stopped snooping, stole away. Said one: "The maze of conflicting rulings from Washington and local ration boards has placed inspectors on the spot. I'm tired of being called a sneak and a Gestapo agent...
Again the Eighth. The second factor in the victory was a sneak by important armored and infantry units of the Eighth Army. They hustled from their dormant sector on the southeastern end of the line up to the First Army's toughest sector, the Medjerda Valley approach to Tunis...
...Surely the Republican Party . . . cannot be so craven that it would conspire to sneak into victory with no issue but Bricker and a bellyache...
...Japs also need an intermediate anchorage where small vessels-the craft of infiltration by sea-can pause before a night sneak to Guadal. Last week U.S. planes hunted down a new Jap hideaway in the New Georgia group. Wickham Anchorage lies hidden behind a long, narrow, palmy, hook-shaped island. It is only 120 miles from the main Jap positions on Guadal. Though the approaches are tricky, good-sized vessels can hide there. Last week a group of Jap cargo ships did. U.S. dive-bombers found them and in two attacks sank four. They also found quite a few landing...
When the Japs sneak-smashed at Pearl Harbor I didn't say, "Kurusu made a sucker out of Hull and the Old Man! Like as usual, Washington was asleep...