Word: peeking
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About 40 students got a rare peek at even rarer letters and books Sunday afternoon as Eliot House celebrated the 20th anniversary of the dedication of the F.O. Matthiessen Room...
...help and immediately ask for the pertinent information on cup size, color preference and—“delicately”—the weight of the intended recipient. If these facts aren’t readily available, Belle de Jour recommends a “discreet peek in her lingerie drawer” before stopping...
...believes a terrorist? It is also possible that he is dead, smothered in a collapsed cave or buried under a remote crag by comrades who will later insist that he escaped. Ideally, someone should peek behind each stone and stump in this massive area, but the Mujahidin fighters who drove Al-Qaeda from its bases certainly won't. Most have already withdrawn to Jalalabad. Besides, they have been so neglected by their commanders that they have little incentive to fight...
...quick nod to those who remain convinced that the whole performance was a fake, there's no substitute for the real thing. The videotape shown last week of bin Laden, his colleagues and a visitor from Saudi Arabia discussing, with evident pleasure, the attacks of Sept. 11 provided a peek into the world of terrorism of a kind that can be matched by no other form of reporting...
Many of the new rules could easily be applied to conduct surveillance on ordinary Americans. The act gives the government broad new power to conduct "sneak and peek" searches--to go into Americans' homes when they're out and look around without telling anyone. Such searches are far more intrusive than traditional "knock and announce" ones...