Word: peeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later with a jumping I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm. En route Ella proves again that she is mistress of more moods than anybody else in the business. She bends her remarkably supple voice with sighing ease around tortuous, voice-trapping lyrics ("I want to peep through the deep, tangled wild wood/ Counting sheep 'til I sleep like a child would"). Best of all, she takes the faded material and gives it a fresh emotional gloss...
...Peep Show. The earliest starter-General Motors' Buick-broke away fast. Buick General Manager Edward T. Ragsdale happily reported that dealers sold an estimated 20,000 the first two days, ordered 52,358 more the first week. In little more than a week, Buick had accomplished a sales job that required two months last year. From Boston to Seattle, showroom crowds ran two to four times higher than last year's. So did firm orders. "Only one thing has kept us from selling a whole lot more right now," said Sales Manager Clarence J. Lauer of Emerson...
...than 600 hotels, some 580 of the total 710 businesses deal solely in these gimmicky souvenirs of St. Bernadette Soubirous. Samples: neckties that glow at night with Bernadette's image, washable plastic Virgins in every size, corkscrews in the shape of Bernadette adoring the Virgin, fountain pens with peep-show Virgins in place of the usual naked woman, three-minute hourglasses embossed with Bernadette telling the Virgin how to time eggs...
Will our superior satellite signal Bo Peep...
...WEEP for joy.' I can call myself the WEEP veep; we'll have a traveling car called the WEEP jeep; and, my God, think of what we can say when we sign off: 'And now, for the next twelve hours you won't hear a peep out of WEEP...