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Word: sneaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into fishing--I spend all of my free time fishing," he says. "Just a freshwater kid that runs out to the local pond and drops a line, all hours of the night. I watch the fishing shows, buy all the tackle and equipment...I'm even known to sneak with my friends into illegal waters...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Finishing in Style: The Class of '94 | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...Boulogne, were beset by a series of mishaps after parting company with Boyerahmadi. Traveling on false Turkish passports and speaking little French, the pair hopped a train to Lyons but got off at the wrong station and missed a connection to Geneva, where their contacts were waiting to sneak them back to Tehran. The morning after the murder, as police reconstructed their flight, they arrived at the Swiss border by taxi. An official suspected that their visas were forged and refused to admit them. Five days later, they arrived in Annecy, where they left a wallet full of incriminating information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tehran Connection | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...start my spring a bit early with a yearly ritual. Strolling through CVS last week, I paused as the new series of Topps baseball cards for the 1994 season caught my eye. I haven't collected in years, but each year I force myself to sneak a peak...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: Down and Out About America's Game | 3/19/1994 | See Source »

...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom. This piece first ran on June...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 1/19/1994 | See Source »

...bite at the apple. They could have changed our order even after the Post story." "Yeah, right," says a White House aide sarcastically. "That would have been smart politics? They knew what they were doing. This is the most sensitive issue in the country. They tried to sneak it by us without a serious round-table discussion, which it obviously demanded, and they succeeded. We've tried to keep a lid on abortion stuff so we could fight one fight on it, in the health- reform debate. Now they've made that harder. You tell me who at HHS said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Why Clinton Blew His Cool | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

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