Word: sneakingly
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Running a low-budget, long-shot campaign, Babbitt has not been above an occasional publicity stunt. Even before his stand-up routine on the NBC debate, he was the first presidential candidate to appear this year in a Saturday Night Live skit (in which he is caught trying to sneak extra grocery items through the express checkout). Following his disastrous video performance at the Houston debate in July, Babbitt almost daily practiced speaking into a videocamera, sometimes sending the tapes to an acting coach...
...says, "that there is much of a railroad left." Sneak out of town on a back road, over the river, through the marshes of South Carolina, / the old road lined with abandoned "cabins for the night" and empty pickup trucks with hand-lettered signs still promising FRESH PEACHES. Back on I-95 the world narrows down to a river of concrete flowing between canyons of still leaves. Poles above the treetops display a shell, a star, double arches. The semiotics of travel...
...last minutes of the game, the icemen woke up and realized that Princeton was trying to sneak away with an upset...
...singular antecedent like everyone, something that was "nonstandard" in RHD-I. Hopefully seems a hopeless cause, a butterfly of an adverb that has turned into the caterpillar it-is-to-be-hoped, which RHD-II proclaims "fully standard." And because many people wrongly consider the past tense of sneak to be snuck (instead of sneaked), the word has been promoted from "chiefly dialect" in RHD-I to full respectability here...
...Factor wasn't enough the next weekend. Cornell did everything it needed to do against Brown in Providence. Everything, that is, except win. Brown fell short in every important statistical category, but came out on top, 23-15, thanks to a blocked punt and a 66-yard quarterback sneak...