Word: sneaks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March manages, by a brilliant stroke of opportunity, to lock two of the brutes out of the house and overpower a third. He leaps to the phone-only to hear his wife cry out that Bogart has got the boy, who had chosen that moment for an attempt to sneak out the window and run for help. Worst of all, the rubbish man starts snooping around-and finds his own grave...
...listening with one ear to cries of "Lillian!" from the street below, Entertainer Briggs surveyed her fast, dazzling rise. "It's wonderful! I love the whole business." The rough rock 'n' roll mob? They wouldn't hurt her-but she makes it a point to sneak out side doors, even though the cops are there to protect...
...firm will take reformed alcoholics who have been on the wagon for three years and are vouched for by teetotaling friends. So far none of the reformed drinkers has backslid. There is always the danger that a policyholder will sneak a drink and get into an accident. But Treasurer Plymat figures that this has occurred no more than half a dozen times. When it happens, the company pays the liability claim and sorrowfully cancels the policy...
Springing the prisoner is no more trouble than Hollywood usually finds it. Clark and a couple of pals simply sail up the Pearl River to Canton, sneak ashore, knock two or three Red guards on the head, open the door of precisely the right cell, and escape to freedom with the Reds chasing foolishly after them. Displaying scarcely more hesitation than a plump matron deciding between a chocolate eclair and a napoleon, Susan lets her husband -who seems glad to get away - fly back to the States, and chooses Clark as her soul mate. Their final clinch halfway...
Tito's Appearance: "He has a flabby, effeminate face, a mask which conceals the wicked, cunning and egotistical soul of an artful sneak . . . A bloodthirsty dwarf and illiterate petit-bourgeois who dons golden uniforms and is suffering from megalomania" (Literary Gazette, Moscow...