Word: snoop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...runs to 13 volumes because it gives sample quotations, going back farther than William the Conqueror, showing how words have changed color through the ages. Before becoming a game, Badminton served variously as the name of an English country estate and a cooling drink. As late as 1848, "snoop" meant "to appropriate or consume dainties in a clandestine manner." The word doom was a synonym for statute until legal proceedings and human nature changed its meaning. Even though the microprinting can be read only with the accompanying magnifying glass, which makes for hard browsing, the whole O.E.D. in two volumes...
...Snoop Scope. Still, despite the wealth, the excitement, the glamour, there are those who are less than happy with the Nixon presence. One group, though hardly in a position to complain, is the Mexican wetbacks, who since time immemorial have used the beach past the Nixon compound as an invasion route. Situated about 70 miles north of the Mexican border, the San Clemente beach had always provided an excellent detour around the Government checkpoints on the freeway northward. Now the beach is manned by dozens of Secret Service agents with infra-red lenses and every kind of detector imaginable...
Such incidents, sometimes involving expertly built homemade fireworks, have prompted a measure of dubious ingenuity on the part of authorities as well. Several librarians attending a meeting of the American Library Association in Detroit complained that Treasury agents have been trying to snoop through their lending records to see who has checked out books on explosives. In March, a Detroit public-library book turned up in a Chicago apartment where police found a cache of explosives. The police set out to discover who had checked it out, but they could not. The book had been stolen from the library...