Word: peeked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curious world was given a peek at some of the evidence that his enemies claim to have against Abbas. On Wednesday evening, Ehud Barak, chief of Israel's military intelligence department, appeared on television. He played a tape recording in Arabic of the radio conversations that served to back the American and Israeli claim that Abbas was involved in the hijacking. There was nothing beyond the Israeli assertion to show that the tape was genuine. A man identified as Abbas, but referring to himself by the nom de guerre Abu Khaled, could be heard talking of "our objective...
...wandering from beach to shop to zoo is actually a highly formalized pattern. Calvino assigns to each chapter a combination of the numbers one, two, and three, like the combination of a lock. Each number corresponding to a different kind of experience. Yet even as he lets the Reader peek into the control room of the observatory, Calvino is playing games. At the end of this story of a man trying to order the world, Calvino unveils an ordering of the story itself. With a final ironic twist, Calvino presents a mathematical model of the book that is just another...
Drained by a growing number of huge personal-injury awards, insurers are struggling to increase profitability by boosting rates and even refusing to renew risky policies. Many of their rejected customers are having a hard time finding insurance at any price. Says Robert Rearden, president of Duncan Peek, an Atlanta insurance-brokerage firm: "At times it's extremely frustrating. ) The other day a salesman here said to me, 'I need an extra day off. It's tiring delivering all this bad news.' " Many businesses and local governments have been forced to go uninsured, thereby risking bankruptcy or at the very...
...took a plastic skull you buy in a model shop and put a flashlight inside so the eyes and face would glow; then I put my dad's World War II aviator cap over the skull and put goggles over the eyeholes. At night, I'd dare them to peek into the closet. They wanted to see it, and they didn't want to see it. But one by one they would slowly open the door and go in. When they were inside I put a plug in the wall and the skull would light up and they would scream...
...could say that The Goonies is not so much a movie as the kinetic model for a theme-park attraction: the Pirate Fun House (& Restaurant). Tiptoe past the men's room and peek at a SCARY MONSTER! Crawl through a fireplace into a SPOOKY CHAMBER! Elude the clutches of an EVIL ITALIAN GANG! See the underground WATERFALL, the infernal CANNONBALL, the DEATH ORGAN and the very many SKELETONS! Hurtle down the FLUME to the cavern containing a genuine imitation 17th century PIRATE SHIP! Get out ALIVE! (And have a nice day.) As in any fun house, the pleasures here...