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Word: peeks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woman's wile is too corny or battle-worn for Lola as she romps about the stage to an insistent Latin rhythm, flinging caution and clothing to the winds. Stretched on a locker-room bench upstage, she sparks the onslaught with a try at the always reliable peek-a-boo technique. "Allo, Joe, it's meee-ee," she coos. A second later she is up and mincing forward as purposefully pigeon-toed as Betty Boop. Along the line two gloves and a skirt fly off; then, as suddenly sultry as the sirocco, Lola wheels to flaunt the angular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Devil's Disciple | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...would have unhindered access at any time to all objects of control." This kind of pretense at control lends itself to the absurdities of the truce inspection teams in Korea and Indo-China: unless the host nation defines an arsenal as nuclear, the inspectors would have no right to peek there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN EUROPE: Getting Set | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...abstraction. Emphasizing the trend is Brooklyn Museum's only U.S. purchase. Two Points of Interest by Brooklyn Artist Edmond Casarella, 34, is a scrawled composition of broken space which slowly unjangles to reveal forms suggesting an apartment house, shades half drawn, laundry on the line, and a peek into a bedroom with a closed door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Postwar Decade | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...Malaga wine while keeping time with a multicolored duster (a present from Uncle Pablo); Doña Lola swayed happily to the rhythm, urging the dancers on with shouts of "Ole!" To show off the Picasso pictures, the family cheerfully struck matches to give Editor Bernier a first tantalizing peek. Back next day at 6 p.m. for a daylight look (the family sleeps all morning, siestas in the afternoon), Rosamond Bernier found a treasure trove of Picassos, most of them stacked dustily against the medical cabinets used by Dr. Pablin to keep plaster casts of his patients' deformed feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Uncle Pablo | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...wanderlusty Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, world tramper and traveloguer (Of Men and Mountains, Strange Lands and Friendly People), spent a long summer vacation clambering about on the peaks of northern Iran. Suspecting that Douglas, from his lofty perches, had stolen a peek or two northward, the Russians promptly and peevishly accused him of spying on them. Now, however, unpredictable Moscow is willing to let him look around some more. This summer, accompanied by Democrat Robert F. Kennedy, counsel to the Senate's Government Operations Committee, Douglas will enter Russia from Iran, reconnoiter by car through six Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 14, 1955 | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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