Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came one evening last week with the suddenness of lightning as Kassem's car took him along the accustomed route through Rashid Street. As usual, little knots of surprised pedestrians stopped to wave or cheer, and some trotted in the dusty street hoping for a peek at the "sole leader." Then, from the sidewalk, a small group of grim men stepped toward the car and opened fire with a deafening clatter. A youth broke out of the startled crowd to hurl himself in front of Kassem as a shield, and a taxi driver rammed his cab between Kassem...
...Doren himself drew a $5,000 advance "for Christmas presents" at a time when he could have lost all his winnings-$20,000 at the time. Before the Congressmen and S.R.O. audiences in a huge, white-columned House caucus room, the witnesses gave a rare and disturbing backstage peek at carnival showmanship and cupidity...
Flying into London last week for a 36-hour visit with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, French Premier Michel Debré had one clear purpose: to take a peek up Britain's sleeve and see what, if any, further undeclared cards the "flexible" British were planning to slip onto the table in the forthcoming East-West negotiations. In the process, Debré gave the rest of the Western alliance its first good look...
...gang that he called "hairy-gutted animals-worse than Murder Inc.," Tom recorded conversations with suspects, using a tiny microphone worn like a wristwatch, snapped telephoto pictures with cameras guyed on field glasses, rigged up a periscope on the radio aerial of his car to enable him to peek inside suspects' homes...
...Jesse Jones, a Cornell professor named George Warren, and, eventually, FDR (the forces of inflation). And there are even more squabbles, sometimes petty, sometimes vital: between Cordell Hull and Raymond Moley at the London Economic Conferences; between Jerome Frank, general counsel and an early casualty of AAA, against George Peek (a representative "of the older generation" in the battle for farm equality); and, in the most dominant fight of them all, between the two Franklin Roosevelts...