Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Holmes dominated every round as Ali seemed unwilling, or unable, to throw any punches. The fight started with both men in the center of the ring, Holmes jabbing away, and Ali, gloves held high, fighting a Floyd Patterson "peek-a-boo" defense...
...Equally funny is an other bit of pantomime, The Three-Forked Crossroad. In a case of mistaken identities at a country inn, two men simulate a sword fight in the dark. Squinting through the supposed gloom, they swipe at one another, only rarely touching in this intricate game of peek and duck...
Peachum cannot flee this bunch fast enough; yet, pity the smug chuckler who patronizes this family: "You New York-Dutch-descended, probably wrong-Strauss-loving officer of some music society or civic uplift group," he snaps. "I'd like a peek at some of your Rorschachs, you old sofa-crack feeler, you. Slipping a palm furtively under cushions and into crevices as you fish for coins in other people's chairs in a fashion whose psychological symbolism is all too readily apparent, you cranny rummager, you wrong-Scarlatti admirer. You secretary-treasurer...
...late '50s came the era of the weather girl-sex to relieve the tedium of the millibars. The acts ranged from chirpy to sultry. The women, often blond, busty and breathy, made a warm front sound like a proposition. NBC's Tedi Thurman used to peek from behind a shower curtain to coo: "The temperature in New York...
Finally Jack became skilled enough to initiate a "conversation" by depressing a key saying What color? Seeing Jack's key light up, Jill would promptly peek behind a curtain in his own cubicle. There, hidden from Jack's view, one of three bulbs (red, green and yellow) would light up. Having been taught to recognize the color, Jill, moving back in front of Jack, would depress a key identified by a letter representing that color. If Jill correctly chose red, for example, by pressing the R key, the key would light up, and Jack would react by depressing...