Word: peeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the Lake Erie shore east of Toledo rose a droning peep-pop of small arms. Occasionally, the peepers' chorus was lost in the bullfrog boom of a heavy Army artillery piece sullenly bellowing from a nearby ordnance depot. Then, for nearly a mile along the lake front, the small-arms drone, insistent and incessant, was heard again. Last week, with something of the sound of mock war, the National Rifle and Pistol Matches were in full crackle at Ohio's Camp Perry. More than 1,300 sharpshooters, the deadliest of U.S. deadeyes, plunked slug after slug through...
...London stage will send its usual handful of hopefuls: The Little Hut, a quadrangle play about a husband, his wife and her lover, shipwrecked on a desert island with an amorous and bogus native; and two mysteries, A Pin to See the Peep Show and Gently Does It, both hoping to duplicate the Broadway success of London's Dial M for Murder...
Married. Jay Gould III, 32, namesake and great-grandson of the fabulous railroad financier; and Lina Romay, 29, dark-eyed songstress of stage (Michael Todd's Peep Show) and screen (The Man Behind the Gun); he for the third time, she for the second; in Los Angeles...
...aulis Montezumae Tripolis ad litora . . . give me an old Springfield rifle and I'll translate word for word, identify the meter and give you the principal parts of every goddam verb, at 1,000 yards, with the peep sight up! And look-I'm not a Latin teacher, but a businessman; but I had good teachers and liked the stuff! Semper fidelisly...
...didn't see me creep Down the stairs to have a peep, She thought that I was tucked up In my bedroom fast asleep...