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No one who watched is likely to forget Rubio’s awkward stare as he furtively reached for a water bottle, cementing his reputation as the thirstiest man in the U.S.

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John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, the attorney general—how’s that for independence!—furtively directed the Internal Revenue Service to audit right-wing radio personalities who criticized the administration.

Indeed, students spoke furtively of the dark arts of circumvention.

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I spotted one man with a hammer and a flashlight looking furtively around my son’s neighborhood.

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Bingeing can look different for different people, but for Specter, it involves “shoving food furtively into my mouth as quickly and passively” as possible, she writes.

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