Word: sneakingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dull, scheme for a successful marriage. The idea of her plan is to be married, but to conduct a strictly platonic relationship for the first three months until both parties are satisfied that they are meant for each other. Douglas, playing the role of a normal man, tries to sneak one over on his wife and break up the plan. He tries in the only way he knows how, and his attempts, coupled with a few side plots furnish the humor of the picture. Apparently he knows how to break up a platonic friendship, for the picture ends...
...after listening for years to the after-dinner prattle of inept speakers about how wonderful it is that the U. S.Canadian frontier is unfortified, Sir Gerald said he would like to "sneak up there some time and plant just a tiny cannon on the border...
...union which controls 7,200 Boeing workers is Local 751 of the Aeronautical Mechanics Union, an affiliate of A. F. of L. Two months ago, the editor of the local's house organ, Aero Mechanic, got out a "sneak" edition loaded with dynamite. In it young, nervous Editor Clifford A. Stone had packed all the pent-up resentment of months. He charged that...
...Forward the Gallows" snapped: "Someone should be hanged-quickly." Military and civil defense services were often involved. Most shocking case was that of four members of the heroic time-bomb disposal squad that saved St. Paul's (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week's bag of looted and sneak-stolen cigarets was estimated at 150,000. Most were wholesale-warehouse jobs, but even street-vending machines were not safe...
...grab off a few countries, or possessions of other countries, instead of meddling in the affairs of poor old Japan, who is only looking out for her people by taking over a few small islands in the Pacific and all of China. In other words, the United States should sneak up on Canada while she is pitifully weak and unprotected, and annex it, as Italy would do if given half a chance...