Word: sneaks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mike, who collects Goya etchings and reads Bernard Shaw, has "an ego as big as a horse . . . the loud ego of genius, real genius." Raking together the cash and crew to shoot the picture, he explains to his scriptwriter how he intends "to sneak in the truth" and make it the kind of Zelsmith Production people respect: "I give them the sex and the brawl, but also a little of the ache and the agony of life. The lousy beauty of it, the crummy pleasures of kids and family life, and art shots and a pain in the heart...
...Wassily Leontief. The secretaries of the building regard the collection jealously as theirs by right of salvage; after each conference one of them Leontief's memorandum pad, date it, and add it to the series. "Not many professors know about it," says the current holder. "But some of them sneak in once in a while to see themselves...
...Prime Minister told his solemn audience that the King fires trusted officials for conspiring against him. He beats his servants and even his wife, Queen Zaine, whom he loves. Once when the Queen's brother intervened, King Talal ran him out of the palace. At times, Talal would sneak away and mount a mangy horse and ride unprotected through Amman. Brought back, he would say that he was happy among his people, who were his only friends...
Radcliffe's 30-minute answer to "Invitation to Harvard" was given in a sneak preview at Moors Hall Wednesday night by Roger Butler '51, producer and narrator...
...Reds' strategy seemed to be to sneak into power. In Rome, clad in his very best grey flannels as he received Western foreign correspondents for the first time since 1948, Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti was at his most disingenuous. Genially he told reporters that all Communists want is peace and work, land and bread. In the southern provinces the Reds, to conceal themselves, were designating their party tickets with such symbols as a resurrected Christ, a St. Anthony...