Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every place he went it was the same; the crowd, and his own aides, waited for his soul to crack open, just enough for a quick, reassuring peek. His advisers even imagined what he would say the next time some pretender like Alexander dismissed him as a man worthy of people's respect but not their vote: "I didn't leave a piece of me in Europe only to be told by someone who never served that I didn't have something more to give to my country." But that scalding speech Dole would not give, and even his allies...
...case a real nuclear device ever is found, NEST's diagnostic and assessment teams have all kinds of equipment, such as portable X-ray machines, with which to peek under the bomb's wrapping. An instrument that looks like a Dustbuster is swept over the outside of the bomb to vacuum up any faint but telling fumes it might emit...
...solemn tombs for soldiers from each country, and then slipped into the ossuary. But there were private stairs leading down to a basement, walled off by glass windows that had been painted black to hide what was inside. The paint had peeled, so they decided to take a peek...
Harvard's sneak peek at Princeton gave it many insights into Princeton's key weaknesses. The Tigers' goalie has only been on the ice for a week due to the field hockey season. The Crimson plans on firing more shots to work her lack of ice time to its advantage...
...wings, the Dole campaign is running scared. "It's the job of the front runner to be disciplined and put the nervousness aside and stay on message," goads Charlie Black, Phil Gramm's general chairman. "But they're panicked and they're overreacting to a lot of things." A peek inside the vast, well-oiled Dole operation shows signs of fear and frustration. Campaign sources say that Dole booted his top field organizer, Jill Hanson, off his campaign plane and narrowed her portfolio in the wake of the disastrous tie with Phil Gramm last August in the Iowa straw poll...