Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charter subscriber and has been a devoted reader for many years. Unfortunately, however, he has difficulty keeping current. There are too many things to read, and not enough hours in the day . . . When a new issue of TIME arrives, he doesn't even crack it open for a peek. No sir. He just puts it in its proper place with the other unread issues that have piled up. and keeps right on plodding along with the copy he was engrossed in at the moment. In short, he's going to read his TIME chronologically...
...used to keep a whole shelf of books about his chief behind his desk in 1944 at advanced headquarters in the New Guinea jungle. After World War II, his Tokyo staff prepared an elaborate history of MacArthur's exploits at which Army department historians were not allowed a peek. These "MacArthur histories" provide the basis for the best part of this unevenly documented book. Willoughby is happiest describing the Southwest Pacific campaigns in which MacArthur was so magnificently right, advancing by more than 100 amphibious landings to his promised Philippine return. An oldtime Leavenworth command-school lecturer with...
...first, except that the chamber appeared to be as clean as when its roof had been set in place nearly 5,000 years ago. Next day the chiseling continued while El Malakh and a group of colleagues waited impatiently. At last the hole was big enough for him to peek inside. In the excitement he forgot to bring a flashlight, so he used a mirror (as the ancient Egyptians probably did) to shoot sunlight into the darkness...
...railroads, built mostly by the British and Japanese, serviced the coastal provinces and industrial Manchuria, and one-third of these lines were knocked out during the war with the Communists. Last week, from TIME'S bureau in Hong Kong, a city where the free world gets its best peek through the slits in the bamboo curtain, came the most detailed word yet of what the Reds have done and hope to do about the railroads...
First to get a peek at the gallery were an American and a Briton, each of whom had bought more than $14,000 worth of Farouk's stamp collection. The American marveled: "Boy, this is certainly some collection of dirt!" Mused the Englishman: "I cannot understand why the monarch, who was surrounded by so much that was desirable, found pleasure in such obscenity." Meanwhile, four city fathers of Venice demanded that Farouk be kicked out of his Italian exile because he offends "national dignity and morality...