Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bears, winners of the International League playoffs: the 22nd annual Little World Series; for the third time; defeating the Louisville Colonels, winners of the American Association playoffs; four games to two; at Ruppert Stadium, Newark, N. J. Next spring, seven of Newark's biggest Bears, including Pitcher Steve Peek, who won 16 of his last 17 games, will try out with the New York Yankees, their parent club, which finished third in the American League this year...
...middle of the week, no one was as much interested in casualties as in the election results. Official results would not be announced until September, but it was expected that after meeting last week the juntas computadoras (vote-counting boards) would let the public have a preview peek at the count. As if the opposition candidate had any hopes of winning in spite of the preposterously fixed election, the Government assembled truckloads of pistoleros to keep Almazanistas from getting nosy. One Government spokesman was admirably frank. Said he, apparently in English, to Jack O'Brine of the New York...
What with traditional naval secrecy and last week's accent on fifth columns, the Navy made the launching of Washington VI as private as was decently possible. Four miles of the Delaware River were temporarily closed to shipping, lest passing sailors get a peek at the secret superstructure. Philadelphia police and FBI agents kept tabs on the 35,000 (mostly Navy yard workers, their families, naval personnel) who were admitted to the Yard for the big baptism...
Defendants in the petition included the university Board of Regents, Governor Culbert Olson, Lieutenant-Governor Ellis Patterson Secretary of State Paul Peek, and President Robert Gordon Sproul of the university...
...British dress manufacturer named John Herbert, who shipped him to the U. S. on what he hoped would be a money-making junket. Last week Adam arrived in Manhattan, was unveiled to the U. S. public at 57th Street's Fine Arts Galleries, at 50? a peek. All indications were that, as a come-on curiosity, Adam might run a close second to John Wilkes Booth's mummy or the Cardiff giant. Said a weary gallery attendant: "It's enough to make a fella blush." "I don't know why Eve fell for that guy," muttered...