Word: sneaks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time Tiger got a look at his wife was when they were getting married. As the ceremonial sheet was thrown over them, he raised her veil to sneak a glimpse and saw a teen-ager with "black, sad eyes, long hair, undeveloped breasts." Tiger was only 16 himself...
Protecting Greater New York against a possible sneak air attack is the dreary chore assigned to gunners of the 52nd Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade. Looking to a cold winter, the Army brass decided to give the 52nd-housed in drafty canvas tents-a better deal in living quarters...
...Such Marxists are spreading the word among Bolivia's Indians that land reform is next, and a restlessness has already been noted on the altiplano. If Paz shoots the nationalist wad and fails, the door to Marxist revolution may be blown wide open. And if the Reds sneak in, Bolivia will indeed be back on the map of the world's trouble spots...
...that time, the plan has gathered considerable opposition from library officials for its "impracticality." Invalid singly, their chief objections are no more persuasive taken together. Librarians charge, for example, that commuters look like everyone else and residents could take advantage of the similarity to sneak books out for themselves. Yet, library officials could easily identify the commuters by checking their names with the commuter list. Since there is no congestion at the check-out desks at five, the plan would neither interrupt routine nor require increased personnel...
...present candy often proved more alluring than the future carrot. The gardener sometimes had to pursue the local roughs who were found sneaking along the back fence for one reason or another. Time & again a girl would sneak out before daylight with the petty cash or any other item she could lay hands on. Dickens became a well-known figure in the magistrate's court. Although few statistics remain, it appears that between 1847 and 1853, the home cared for 56 women, ten of whom were expelled for incorrigible misconduct and seven of whom ran away. Of those...