Word: sneakingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smooth-working young sneak thief made a serious mistake by picking Lowell House, "famous for its brains and bells," as his victim. The Cambridge youth, known only as "Bob White" for whom he asked when he found someone in a room, stole cameras, radios, and money from a number of Bellboys...
Henry Stimson wanted U.S. citizens to expect the blow, to nerve themselves to take it. The Japanese would sneak one or more carriers close to the West Coast-or to the Panama Canal or to Alaska-and take revenge. The Germans could do something similar to the East Coast. The people could only hope that the U.S. defenses were better than Tokyo's-and that the people would not be as frantic as Tokyo's civilians...
When Italy's sneak-punch into the war brought minuscule Malta under its huge, puffed-up shadow, there was not a single plane on the island. Only 60 miles from Sicily, Malta was promptly written off by the British as impossible, to defend. But while Italy still controlled Sicily, Malta's war was a seesaw affair of brief, bravura raids and dolce jar niente. Not till the Luftwaffe took over did the real pasting come, and Malta become history's most heavily bombed island...
Tires. In Detroit, a sneak thief stole a wheel and tire from a minister's car, parked in front of a hotel. The minister went to get a policeman. When he got back to his car, another wheel and tire were gone...
...hold a flat, mile-square tract of semidesert land near Los Angeles which could be turned into a landing field for bombers in an hour or two. Japanese farmers cultivate most of the foggy shoreline of Palos Verdes (next door to vital San Pedro harbor), where landing parties could sneak in undetected, under the shadow of towering cliffs, on to a number of good beaches. Other sound reasons were suggested by the case of Alien George Makamura, in whose seaside home at Santa Cruz FBI men found 69 great crates of signal rockets and colored flares...