Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officials of the nation's anti-inflation program to define the word stabilize. Said Chief Stabilizer Roger Putnam: "To preserve the value of the dollar." Price Boss Ellis Arnall : "To keep in a stable position or relatively in equilibrium or balance." Wage Board Chairman Nathan Feinsinger, after a peek at the dictionary: "A substance added to an explosive to render-it less liable to spontaneous decomposition...
...Hong Kong, the keyhole which gives the West an occasional peek inside Communist China, British businessmen have long felt that the Chinese Reds were here to stay. They scoffed at Americans who argued otherwise. Last week Hong Kong's respected weekly Far Eastern Economic Review, organ of influential British Far Eastern traders, sharply reversed itself...
Stevenson's public service began in the pioneering days of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. In 1933, he went to Washington as special counsel under George N. Peek, administrator of the new Agricultural Adjustment Act. At the end of 1935, he returned to Chicago to practice...
...Westerners recently to get a peek behind the Iron Curtain is a lanky young London banker named John Lindsay Eric Smith. Scion of a family who have been bankers since 1688, Smith went to Eton and Oxford, served in the fleet air arm, and is now a managing director of Coutts' bank. Excerpts from his report on Russia in The National & English Review, a Conservative monthly...
...Peek-a-Boe is packed with humor and nonsence at the Translux...