Word: snuck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During Yom Kippur services on Wednesday, I was a bit unfocused. Maybe I was a little out of practice, since I hadn't seen the inside of a synagogue since the last Yom Kippur. Maybe I was just too hungry to concentrate. (The doughnut I snuck at breakfast hardly did a thing--I hoped you weren't looking...
...paid off. Last spring an amendment to the bill that would have ended affirmative action in higher education was defeated after an intense lobbying effort by Harvard and higher-education advocacy groups. Last week, partly in response to Harvard's prodding, Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), snuck in an amendment which will allow some students nationwide--and many Harvard students--to save money by refinancing their student loans...
Bevilacqua leaped into the crease and snuck the game-winner past the charging goalie John Kasselakis and then was buried under a heap of UMass defenders. After the referee's signal, he got the same treatment from his jubilant teammates...
After sophomore designated hitter Steve Langone led off with a solo homer, junior second baseman Mike Gambino followed an infield single with a hot grounder to third that snuck under Woodfork's glove...
...grew up as a reader in a house full of books. At first I started with children's classics like Robinson Crusoe and Julie of the Wolves. Just as I was entering my teens, though, I discovered my father's collection of mystery novels. I snuck the works of Chandler, Hammett, and others up to my bedroom and read them under the covers late at night, when I was sure that my parents were asleep. Ellroy's The Black Dahlia, which he calls "a valediction in blood," left me sleepless and staring at the ceiling for weeks, sure that...