Word: sneaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hurried off to first aid. Survivors scurry off to corners, sort through dresses, throwing rejects on floor. They swap sizes with one another and exchange telephone numbers for later bartering. Mrs. Conroy: "You've got to hold your dresses tightly; otherwise some of those old squaws will sneak up behind you and snitch a few of them...
...Anson was unimpressed. "They're all V.C., you can just tell," he said. "You don't see many young men in there, do you? All women, children and old men. Where'd all those guys go? Out with the V.C., that's where. We come in at night and sneak into one of their hootches and you know where they are? All in their bunkers. They gotta...
...guerrillas may move through the country. The fedayeen must remain inconspicuous in Lebanon, avoiding principal cities and tourist centers. In hopes of avoiding Israeli reprisals on Lebanese towns, the guerrillas must not linger in settled areas. They are also ordered not to start incidents along the border but to sneak deeply into Israel before they strike...
...challenge, many have followed Bear's example and reverted to the bow and arrow. By necessity, they have also returned to nature. "The bow hunter is accurate at only 30 yards or less," explains Bear. "Getting that close to a wild animal is like trying to sneak into Fort Knox. And that's the fun of it. It's not the kill; that's always anticlimactic. It's the tracking, the learning of the ways of the woods' creatures...
...benefit of important visitors, a demonstration of enemy tactics is staged by G.I.s. Playing the part of North Koreans, they slip up to some barbed wire surrounded by mock-up mines. One G.I. snips the wire with a captured enemy wire cutter, thus demonstrating how North Koreans make sneak attacks on U.S. and South Korean patrols. During the show, the briefing officer may say something like "Toe says a Katusa came to OP Mazie with a signal from Cincunc at Uncmac." Translation: "Tactical Operations Center says a Korean attached to the U.S. Army came to Observation Post Mazie with...