Search Details

Word: sneaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beating the System | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...thaw following the recent sneak snowfalls has transformed Harvard Square into a morass; an oily, black slush is waging an all-out war against man, and winning. What was once snow now looks like low-grade mud, feels like cold porridge, and acts with a diabolical intelligence. This Cambridge variety preys on nice elderly ladies with full shopping bags and weak ankles, lying in wait to capitalize upon the slightest mis-step. Faint yips are all that remain of a dog who attempted to cross the Square; six Volkswagens so far have disappeared into Massachusetts Avenue; and a small child...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Cold Our Toes, Tiddley-Poom | 1/11/1957 | See Source »

...Sneak to the Border. Next day Dick Nixon returned to Vienna to talk with hard-pressed Austrian officials, and to inspect the quarters where refugees seeking entry to the U.S. are processed. On leaving the headquarters, he insisted on abandoning his car to stroll along the crowded Vienna street and chat with passersby. The Viennese, like the Hungarians in the refugee camps, were astonished: the handshaking stroll, a fixture of the U.S. political scene, was a novelty to Europeans, but they appeared delighted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: The Visitor | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

Secrets of Life (Buena Vista), like all the rest of Walt Disney's nature films, is everything the eye could wish, but rather more than the ear can bear. The music sounds like a sneak attack on Debussy by MacNamara's band, and the commentary reads like a TV pitch for nature's way, spelled backwards. Yet across the screen there moves in lustrous color a beautifully photographed freak show. At its best, it is popular science at not very far from its best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...Long rated by his platoon as a "prize eight ball," Machine Gunner John Wol-zeak spotted a Chinese sneak attack, made "the astonishing discovery that he was a born infantry fighter," and, together with a buddy, exultantly checked the enemy. t| On Dale outpost, a badly wounded lieutenant led an uphill counterattack and nightlong defense, next morning could still jolly his men with a grin and a quip: "I already have one Purple Heart. Now they'll have to give me a dozen." t| Two infantrymen, both named Smith, were cut off from their outfit, spent the night with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Test of Great Events | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Next