Word: sneaks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of them paid smugglers $10 to sneak them over the line in automobile trunks. But most simply walked to the east or west of the International Bridge, jumped across the narrow New River, crawled through holes,in a 10 ft. wire fence, and scrambled up to U.S. soil. They were the prey of countless enemies. Robbers had killed some of them. Disease killed many more. Sometimes the unwary died sneaking rides atop 12-ft. hay trucks, which sped through 13-ft. underpasses on the highways...
...script sacrifices them all to Hope's aggressive pursuit of anything for a laugh, from trip-hammer wisecracks to all-out slapstick. Since almost anything he does gets a laugh, none but the most stubborn Runyon fans should mind. Best scene: Hope trying to sneak the clothes off a department-store manikin without attracting attention from the crowd outside the window...
...price of a sneak bombing attack on the U.S. was climbing higher. Last week the Air Force announced that the protective radar screen around the U.S., begun 15 months ago and carried forward under priority orders for the past year, would be finished, in 1951, would stretch out to include Alaska next year. Still needed: more & better-equipped all-weather jet interceptors, many more civilian airplane spotters to back up the radar...
Americans seem to have a consuming interest in snakes. They must be told repeatedly that there is no such thing as 1) a hoop snake, which is supposed to put its tail in its mouth and roll downhill when frightened, or 2) a milk snake, which is supposed to sneak into barns and milk cows, or 3) a cannibal snake, which supposedly eats its young. Another bump of curiosity is excited by the Old Testament. Questioners want to know if Adam was divorced (from Lilith, according to Jewish folklore); whom Cain married (possibly his sister Awan); who was Noah...
...From his ranch in the south, Getulio began a stately progress toward Rio and next week's inaugural ceremonies. When he met Sao Paulo's Governor Adhemar de Barros to talk over the new cabinet, so many well-wishers surrounded him that he had to sneak off and hold private chats in the kitchen...