Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gaints onstage is essential. Lawrence Channing, as the Hector determined to avert the Trojan War, never manages to achieve heroic stature. In his initial appearance, returning victorious from a two-bit war, he bounds onstage like a ten-year-old running to mother and bestows on Andromache a puerile peck. He does sometimes, however, rise from his adolescent manner to the posture of a warrior. His oration to the dead on the closing of the Gate of War is most convincing...
With the rain increasing in the second half, the Crimson passing slowed down, but good defensive work aided by Chris Nauge's kicking to touch' stopped New York's attempt to peck away at the Crimson lead...
...inner door. That done, three more of the gang got out and went into the store with him, while a fifth accomplice put a new padlock on the gate to allay the suspicions of any passing policemen. Inside, the four men forced a safe and swept up a peck of rings, bracelets, watches and necklaces, worth over $110,000. But the night had just begun: in the safe the crooks also found keys to the Goldsmiths' & Silversmiths' branch store in Burlington Arcade a few blocks away...
...Gimbel's department store pitched its ads to "the neat generation." Chicago-area stores reported that their best sales to teen-age girls came in conservative, mannish-looking apparel: vests, West Point-styled jackets, wool poncho capes, hooded sweaters and jackets called "benchwarmers." New York's Peck & Peck said that sales from its mail-order back-to-school brochure are running 23% ahead of last year. Biggest demand is for old standbys such as polo and Chesterfield coats, but there is also a fad for kilt skirts and shaggy-dog coats. In Los Angeles the Smart Sixteen...
...Rice Alforth Evelyn Harris, 72, has been quietly going his own Roman way at St. Andrew's for 33 years. But this spring he found himself with a new bishop and a peck of trouble. Southwark's Bishop Mervyn Stockwood (who caused a ripple of censure himself when he arrived in Southwark wearing a bow tie) heard of the popish goings-on at St. Andrew's and called Anglican Harris on the carpet. Yes, said the priest, he celebrated the Roman Mass instead of Anglican Communion (and included a prayer for the Pope as "Head...