Word: sneaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...give us any shit if we behaved ourselves as far as noise. Around 5 p.m. we'd all pile into a car, go down to the highway somewhere and eat dinner. Then a lot of the guys who were 17 and 18 would go into town and try to sneak into bars. But I was usually content just to sit around and bullshit; and crash out around nine...
...thank ol' Bob for keeping Nixon's aberrant behavior from destroying the nation: "Nixon said, 'There are ways to do it. Goddamnit, sneak in in the middle of the night...' (A perfect example of classic Nixonian rhetorical overkill.) I said, 'We sure shouldn't take the risk of getting us blown out of the water before the election.' (A perfect example of classic Haldeman effort to defuse another potential bomb)," Haldeman writes. Some other time, maybe...
Students who managed to sneak through high school with a thorough knowledge of their times tables, but not much more, will be disappointed if one key proposal passes. In what one CUE member said was a move to satisfy the University's "science people," the draft plan calls for each student to demonstrate a minimum degree of competence in mathematics...
...then there are those supremely intellectual, upper-class readers of TIME who have been known to tear themselves away from Forbes or I, Claudius and, cunningly disguised in blue collars, sneak off to see,Smokey and the Bandit-twice...
...solemnly at first - about their days and journeys with Hubert, beginning to chuckle and then to laugh out loud, and then reaching for an other bourbon to ease the long, low ache that comes from knowing a great man is gone. Had Hubert, like Tom Sawyer, been able to sneak under the back pews at his own services and witness the proceedings (and, who knows, he might have - he sort of believed in those things), he would have swelled in the wonderment of tribute. But then he would have tip toed around and bussed Muriel, winked at his friends...