Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Look!" says Private Dror, his eyes nervously scanning the street. "There are no youngsters over twelve in sight. Hell, where have they disappeared to?" The five Israeli soldiers from the Nahal unit quickly slip down a narrow alley. Four Palestinian youths peek briefly from between two houses. Seconds later, a hailstorm of stones and metal pieces pelts the patrol. Hugging the walls, the unit breaks apart. When it reassembles, Dror, 20, is breathless. Three masked men had hit him with rocks. "The bastards knew very well I couldn't do anything to them," he mutters to TIME...
...eyes," he decided during 20 years as a California judge. When a driver claims his car couldn't go over 35 m.p.h., his Honor-on-the-spot takes it out for a spin. What did a policeman see through the keyhole? To find out, Wapner goes and takes a peek. This volume hardly qualifies as a scholarly treatise (Chapter 10 is titled "Under ( the Robes"). But readers seeking Wapner's piquant observations and offbeat tales of life in the legal lane won't sue for failure to deliver...
Some editors feared that the media's pursuit of Hart's private life might become as much an issue as his adulteries. As Hart put it in a speech at Yale, "How far are we prepared to go as a society to peek into areas hitherto precluded...
...transfer to the U.S.S.R. of the high-tech electronics used in spacecraft, but no one seems willing to accept Soviet assurances. Apollo Astronaut Walter Cunningham spoke to the Soviet group and later dismissed the proposal. Said he: "We'd be naive to think they're not going to peek under the covers to look at our hardware...
...boys peek their heads through the door to see what all the excitement is about. "Come on in Sean, Randy," the eldest child at the table calls out. "You're missing all the fun." They stay by the door...