Word: sneaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which stands between them and death. But he delays too long, giving the Injuns time to gallop up and save the day by attempting to slaughter all the inhabitants, starting, as luck would have it, with the malicious magistrate. Amid all the confusion of the attack, Joffe manages to sneak a cloyingly happy ending past the logic of the distracted narrative...
...smoke in the office anymore, but sometimes we sneak off and smoke a few [cigars]," Campbell says...
Even though they cannot exist officially on campus, F&Ss do manage to sneak into college life through several social channels. For example, last year several F&S dances took place on Harvard's grounds. How can this be, you ask, if it's illegal for them to hold meetings even in private dorm rooms? The F&Ss involved were fortunate enough to obtain "co-sponsorships" from official student organizations, many of which count F&S members among their ranks. And those people you see running around with odd-looking pins on their sweaters? They wear the marks...
Infowar weapons may be even more exotic than computer viruses. Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has developed a suitcase-size device that generates a high-powered electromagnetic pulse. Commandos could sneak into a foreign capital, place the EMP suitcase next to a bank and set it off. The resulting pulse would burn out all electronic components in the building. Other proposals combine biology with electronics. For instance, Pentagon officials believe microbes can be bred to eat the electronics and insulating material inside computers just as microorganisms consume trash and oil slicks...
...Gore's campaign for labeling albums shows, many of these so-called acts of "parental responsibility" simply create yet another forbidden fruit for children. The "cool" kids, the ones who buy the restricted CDs and sneak into R movies, will inevitably find their V chip and dismantle it, or change its level. The homes of the "cool" parents who do not use a V chip, or who set theirs to a lower level, will be sought as hangouts...