Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the tilt, a peek at the latest conduct report shows...
They're There. In East Africa, jolly British Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, flying low over Kenya Colony's game lands, rubbed his eyes, took another peek at the herd of pink elephants below. The elephants, explained a knowing aide, had been rolling in reddish clay and they were indeed pink...
...Parade. The Congressman's one best chance to peek into the workings of the powerful little group that runs the Navy comes when the admirals seek funds. In wartime Congress invariably writes this group a blank check, and so the lean, bald top dog, Admiral Ernest J. King, conceded, while contending that the money is spent carefully ("I'm a taxpayer, too"). But at committee hearings the people's representatives can give the admirals some uneasy moments...
...answer was not immediately discernible. The ball game was inevitably won by the Yanks, 3-0, mostly because Hank Borowy refused to give the Red Sox a peek at the ball in the pinches. The performance was similar to pre-Pearl Harbor baseball...
...painters set to work in a biggish, two-windowed room. First they covered the red-green-&-brown-speckled carpet with canvas, then slapped a coat of cream-colored paint on the walls and departed. Other workmen began moving in telephones and desks. Staff officers who took time to peek noted that there was ample floor space for a couple of comfortable chairs, ample wall space for outsize maps. The office from which General Dwight D. ("Ike") Eisenhower will direct the invasion of Europe was almost ready...