Word: sneakingly
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...fervent--and slightly incestuous--daughterly respect. Helene pretends to desire Baltar, but she'd rather get a little attention from her husband, who values his research more than anything, except, perhaps, the chance to deflower his librarian. The remaining two inhabitants of the convent, a pair of housekeepers, sneak around the buildings, spying on the others and whispering astrological secrets and curses in Portugese...
...unhealthy behavior. Turner Broadcasting System in Atlanta has a policy by which the company can fire employees hired after 1986 who are caught smoking--whether at work or at home. So far, no one has been fired under the policy. But some people, says an employee, still manage to sneak a smoke...
...Bill 2110, a Medicaid amendment that holds the tobacco industry responsible for the estimated $300 million to $800 million a year the state pays to treat tobacco-related illnesses and that allows lawsuits to collect these funds to use statistical evidence compiled by the Centers for Disease Control. "Profound sneak attack," charges one tobacco lobbyist. The tobacco industry and some associated industries, like U.S. Sugar, filed suit to repeal the bill; the Florida Supreme Court is expected to rule soon. Although last year Governor Lawton Chiles vetoed the legislature's repeal of the legislation, the lawmakers are expected to override...
...revere the Confederate flag often allege that the Southern way of life is a grand tradition. The most cursory scrutiny of this proposition completely undermines its claims to validity. The Southern gentleman, who was supposed to be a gallant, aristocratic hero, was a craven degenerate. This slave-owner would sneak out of his house late at night to rape black women and girls. As light-skinned mulattoes began to appear on his plantation, he began to actually enslave and brutalize his very own children...
WATCHFUL COMMANDERS IN BOSNIA never tire of warning soldiers in their charge that there are any number of ways to meet death in the Balkans--and almost all come suddenly. It can sneak up from behind, directed by the cross hairs of a sniper's scope. It can clasp travelers in the muddy embrace of a collapsing mountain road. Or it can detonate from below--which is what happened at 3:45 p.m. last Saturday when Sergeant Donald Dugan, 38, of Belle Center, Ohio, reportedly manning a checkpoint near Tuzla, stepped to the side of the road and was killed...