Word: snoop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing that the Communist government does in Russia," cried Massachusetts' Representative Edith Nourse Rogers. "A strange, dangerous, intolerable thing," echoed the Boston Record. But the tax-paying public, once it got the point that only tax-dodgers need fear the ringing doorbell, seemed well pleased with "Operation Snoop," as the press called it. Last week, when the tabulation of the two-day canvass was reported, it looked like a tax-collector's dream. Out of 8,800 New Englanders questioned, 1,150 (13%) confessed delinquencies, and dug up $80,000 in overlooked taxes. Other queasy, uncanvassed delinquents sent...
...almost impossible today to "call" young brain power into governmental service. To be sure, there are those who may "apply" for a job, fill out wordy dossiers on themselves, wait months for Civil Service classification (a process which insures mediocrity), and then undergo the humiliating "402, FBI-security" snoop...
About once a week, the A.M.P.'s pile into cars and snoop around industrial plants in the Greater Boston area as part of the "know the other man's business" part of the program...
...sound that any noise can be heard throughout the building. Every time I step into my kitchen or go into the hall I hear the intimate sounds of my neighbor's lives. As a final touch, the landlady occasionally takes advantage of my absence to let herself in and snoop through my things...
Critics called him "snoop" and "transom-peeper." One starlet angrily described his visit as a "personal affront." Ronald Reagan, president of the Screen Actors Guild, righteously insisted that "Hollywood is pretty much a goes-to-bed-with-the-chickens town." The press joined in with a delighted chorus of catcalls...