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Word: sneaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time she entered high school, Anne was a slick, style-conscious teen-ager -far more "sophisticated" than she is today-with a great interest in the boys. But always Mamma was there to keep her in check. "Once," says Anne, "my mother caught my older sister having sneak dates and beat hell out of her. I didn't want a licking, so I didn't do too much of that." And another time, when Annie smoked a cigarette onstage in an amateur production of Night Must Fall, her Aunt Kate yelled terrifyingly from the back of the hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Who Is Stanislavsky? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...sneak in through the West entrance and thus do not frighten undergraduates and their dates. This is a good thing because I would assume undergraduates still shudder at the prospect of becoming suburbanites involved in such pastimes as raising children and sitting in cheap seats at the Stadium. Bayley F. Mason...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM THE CHEAP SEATS | 12/10/1959 | See Source »

Last week the six winners looked more like close-cropped Spartans cut loose in Athens. Donning black robes and boarding bicycles, they found Oxford a startling experience. They met their tutors, pondered invitations to join the Zen Buddhist club, learned where to sneak in after college gates close at midnight. The headiest shock was Oxford's enfolding leisure. Suddenly there was time to talk all night, to sleep until noon. "Back there," mused the go-go Air Academy's Brad Hosmer, 21, "I barely had time to read a book a week." Muttered another unbound lieutenant: "I keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Assignment: Oxford | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Dartmouth's only score of the game came ten minutes through the first quarter. Capitalizing on a Yardling fumble on its own 15-yard line, the Indians made it first down and goal to go on the five, then pushed their way to a touchdown on a quarterback sneak by Greg Cook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indians Blank Varsity, 9-0; Yardlings Win | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...20th Century-Fox). In a sneak preview of this film at a Manhattan movie theater, a woman in the roped-off guest section raised her voice in the dark to cry: "Good heavens, how could Hank have accepted such a role?" There on the screen, prancing awkwardly in mandarin robes, flamenco suits, a clown costume, a silly goatee, was Henry Fonda in the role of Willie Bauché, Hollywood producer-director-writer-actor and the most elaborate phony since the big bad wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Man Who Understood Women | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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