Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bank Attorney Joseph H. Peck Jr. reluctantly confirmed, Wiggins' ploy was to sell bogus bankers' acceptances to unwitting buyers in New York. He was able to do this undetected because, in his capacity as head of international operations at Allied, he had authority to sell acceptances on behalf of the bank itself...
...ever managed to make a film biography of the Indian leader, he wanted her to play the part of the star photojournalism Bourke-White captured in the pages of FORTUNE the gritty, yet poetic texture of industrial America in the 1930s, and her shot of Montana's Fort Peck Dam graced the first cover of LIFE. Bergen took to the shutter when her film career faltered, and in 1972 also made the cover of LIFE with her portrait of Comedian Charlie Chaplin and his wife Oona. Still, it will take all of Bergen's technique on both sides...
Margery H. Peck...
...behalf, Sinatra brought seven character witnesses, including Actors Kirk Douglas and Gregory Peck, but made no mention of another friend: President Ronald Reagan, for whom Sinatra helped raise some $500,000 in campaign donations and organized a preInauguration gala. Reagan has said of Sinatra's reported gangland ties: "We've heard those things about Frank for years, and we just hope none of them are true." The control board decided that there were "no substantive reasons why he shouldn't have a gaming license" and issued Sinatra a temporary one that may be made permanent Witness Sinatra...
Princeton coach Norm Peck and Crimson assistant Mark Panarese retired to the locker room to await the final results--the pressure had proved too great to bear. The opponents commiserated watching the decisive battle, a five-game, seesawing, gut-wrenching match involving Harvard's Chip Robie, who had suffered from the flu all week. The Crimson racquetmen wondered whether he had the stamina to go the distance with stubborn Tiger Jason Fish...