Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Peck, a blond young man of Manhattan who belongs to "Peacemakers," rushed up to the horseshoe table as the Security Council gathered last week at Lake Success. He began passing out "Mediation in Korea" leaflets. A guard told him to stop. Instead, Peck reached toward
Council President Arne Sunde of Norway, with a leaflet outstretched. Said Secretary General Trygve Lie sternly: "Get him out of here-quietly." Guards grabbed Peck and hustled him away...
Even before Peck reached the door, Sunde opened the meeting. Peacemaking by mediation was no longer possible. Sunde set the mood. In measured English, spiced with a heavy Scandinavian accent, he praised "the stamina and courage of American boys who hardly dreamed 14 days ago that they were to be the first to fight for the ideals and principles of the United Nations . . . Let us hope that we shall not fall too far behind these men in our determination and in our dedication...
...Gunfighter (20th Century-Fox) is a maverick western: it spends most of its time indoors. Its hero (Gregory Peck) is a celebrated desperado who wants to go straight. With a limited amount of gunfire and hard riding, the movie makes every shot count, manages to fill a barroom interior with more suspense than most horse operas get from all outdoors...
...Outlaw Peck has the fastest draw in the West and a dozen killings to prove it; but at 35 he is worn, broke and hankering to live out his days peaceably with his estranged wife and son. He rides into a town behind the frontier to find them. To avoid trouble, he coops himself up in a saloon on a quiet morning while the friendly sheriff (Millard Mitchell), an ex-crony, goes to fetch his wife (Helen Westcott). As Peck waits, trouble seeks him out: a fanatic is gunning for him to avenge a murder he never committed; three brothers...