Word: sneakings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Irving, author of "The World According to Garp" and "The Hotel New Hampshire," also gave a sneak preview of his latest venture and fielded questions from the more than 40 people at the Lamont Library forum room...
Despite the new rules, however, students still manage to sneak in under the wire, said proctors in the room. Students who go to the room before noon are not checked, and a proctor said he allowed them to continue word-processing as long as the room was relatively empty...
...hours she spent on an upper deck with machine guns pointed at her head. The hijackers, she recounted, "kept popping their guns and playing with grenades on their belts, like little kids." Falsely told by the terrorists that her husband was in the ship's infirmary, she tried to sneak there for a visit, but was stopped. Only after the hijackers abandoned ship, she said, did she learn that her husband Leon had been slain...
Eliot drew first blood early in game one when defender Ed Nekritz picked up a Winthrop fumble on the second play from scrimmage--setting up a quarterback sneak into the end zone by Brian Hall. Running back Dan Dowling lifted the score to 8-0 by running the ball in from four yards out for a two-point conversion, the first of two such conversions in the game...
...unable to sneak away from work frequently delegate the task of buying alcohol to wives and girlfriends. "What makes women stand in line?" the government daily newspaper Izvestiya asked recently. "Is the desire to preserve a good home atmosphere an impossible feat without the usual tipple? Is it a mistaken sense of bravery or of female weakness?" Last month, according to a privately communicated eyewitness report from one shopper, a woman standing at the front of a liquor store line in Moscow was knocked off her feet by a surging crowd when the shop doors opened. Before she could...