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Word: pecked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less ambitious and more poetic, the traditional banks of the Charles have become softer and greener, or perhaps it is the atmosphere that has become more relaxing and more colorful. A few authors with typewriters and beards peck and hunt for a minute, then close their eyes and listen for five. Touch-tackle games flourish only to pause when the refreshing pinks and powder-blues float...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cruelest Month | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

Russell H. Peck '43, assistant dean of the Law School, and Kingman Brewster, Jr., professor of Law, will discuss "What to Expect in Law School" and "Breaking the Firm Barrier" at the first meeting of the society, which was organized last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pre-Law Body Meets | 3/1/1956 | See Source »

...Seymour Peck, 38, a desk man on the Times Sunday Magazine who joined the paper in 1952, also fought shy of naming onetime Communist associates, while he admitted his own party membership from 1935 to 1949. Like Whitman, he did not claim the refuge of the Fifth Amendment to protect himself against selfincrimination. Peck, a onetime staffer of the now defunct Communist-line New York Compass, simply refused to answer, despite the subcommittee's repeated warnings that he was risking a contempt citation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Eastland v. the Times | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

Married. Gregory Peck, 40, lanky, Lincolnesque cinemactor (Roman Holiday); and Veronique Passani, 22, half-Russian, half-Corsican Parisian newshen; 19 hours after his twelve-year-old marriage (three children) finally ended in divorce; in Lompoc, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 16, 1956 | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

Christmas 1955 (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). With Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra, Helen Hayes, Ronald Colman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Dec. 26, 1955 | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

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