Word: sneaks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sneak thief's fancy was tickled by a package of phonograph records, a man's hat and topcoat that reposed in a car parked on Chicago's South Side. The crook grabbed the loot and ran, little knowing that he had been seen by his victim-none other than Track Great Jesse Owens, who burned up the 1936 Olympics. Balding and 30 Ibs. heavier at 46 than in his running days, Illinois Youth Commission Member Owens raced down a flight of stairs, nailed his quarry in roughly 100 yds., failed to clock his own time...
Coach John Yovicsin aptly summed up his feelings when he said "for a first ball game, our first two groups did as well as we expected." Charlie Ravenel sparked his team by producing the spectacular play at just the right moment--an opening 11-yard quarterback sneak, a pass to halfback Albie Cullen which set up the first touchdown, and an option play again to Cullen to set up the second score...
...launched a long-dreamed-of $2 billion waterway program to deliver Northern California's water to Southern California's arid, sunny region (TIME, June 29). He gained effective control of a divided party, has cagily chaperoned visiting would-be nominees, giving none a chance to sneak around his favorite-son "off-limits" sign...
...boggled minds of readers as they sink out of sight in Author Wallach's pun-swampy prose. The man is popping with word-foolery. He interrupts his narrative-and a more interruptible narrative would be hard to find-to inform the reader that a tirade is "a sneak attack on a haberdashery," and a syndrome is "a large amphitheater where the ancient Romans used to sin." He dreams moodily of going to Canada and establishing a police force equal in every respect to the Mounties. "I would call them the Royal Canadian Tanta-mounties," writes Wallach, adding with crocodile...
Even before she became a star, Ethel was a trouper. She knew what it was to make one-night stands in Main Street theaters, to sneak out of cheap hotels with the family luggage left behind in locked, unpaid-for rooms. She knew what it was to live in hall bedrooms that cost $9 a week, meals included. "It was a wonderful time to begin seeing America," said she, "just at the beginning of the changes that were to be so tremendous." For her, one-night stands were always good-in Jackson, or Little Rock, or Kalamazoo ("The celery...