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Word: peeks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage & screen, had gat trouble with his estranged wife Evalene. One dark night at home in suburban Los Angeles, he heard people coming in without asking, so he grabbed his rod quick and blazed away. It was just Evalene and a couple of detectives having a little peek. Nobody got hit, but Leo got arrested on a gun charge and faced trial this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...peek in my gazebo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Elsa's Gazebo | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Proper Name. In Atlanta, a charge of possessing salacious pictures taken in a nudist camp was placed against one F. C. Peek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...revealing peek at the whirring gears of the bureaucratic mind, the Information Bulletin of the U.S. Military Government in Germany (OMGUS) solemnly totted up the abbreviations in common usage among occupation forces in Germany. From AACS (Airways and Air Communication Service) to ZVL (German central movements directorate), the compendium plodded through 581 separate items. Samples: BE (British Element), CROWCASS (Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects), GMZFO (Military Government of the French Zone of Occupation), PUP (Public Utilities Panel), WAGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Scouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Omgus: AACS to ZVL | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

From the dusty lowlands of San Diego County, the road leads up Palomar Mountain in sharp, steep curves. Near the top the air turns cold; the dry, thorny brush of southern California yields to evergreen forests. Deer bounce across the roadway; squirrels peek from the incense cedars; through the primitive underbrush pads an occasional mountain lion. But the summit of Palomar Mountain is one of the high points of the 20th Century. For there stands the dazzling new 200-inch telescope that will peer a billion lightyears* into space-man's deepest look at the unknown universe he lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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