Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peccant Peck Sir: Apropos of the Catholic "venial kiss" discussion | Oct. 8]: one imagines countless exchanges like this on Irish lanes: "Gi! Said a me lad a to a venial lass, kiss." "To Hell wi' ye, son. I kiss mortal, like this...
Born. To Gregory Peck, 40, lanky cinemactor (Moby Dick), and Véronique Passani, 24, onetime Parisian newshen: a son, their first child (his fourth); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Anthony. Weight...
...Peck Order. In Burlington, N.C., while Motorist J. W. Wiggins was protesting a parking ticket to the city council on the ground that it was unconstitutional, his wife, Policewoman Hazel Wiggins, discovered that his car was parked illegally outside the city hall, wrote out another ticket...
...College. This amounted to about 30 pounds a year, mostly in fake wampum. More money came from gifts and, sometimes, from community subscriptions. But the chief source of revenue was the plain generosity of the people of New England. From 1644 to 1652 enough families contributed a peck of wheat or a shilling of money to support the entire teaching staff of the College, excluding the President, and to assist ten or twelve poor scholars...
Moby Dick. Captain Ahab harrows the oceans in his search for the great white whale; with Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Orson Welles (TIME, July...