Word: peeper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foot instead of horseback. Some noisy nostalgia for the hard, big-city hoods of the '20s and an even harder real-life cop: Barney Ruditsky, a detective who has long since deserted New York's finest for the green-backed life of a private peeper...
...Lightest Peeper. The Dage Television Division of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. has developed for military use the lightest portable television camera-transmitter yet offered for sale, the Tele-Tran. Weighing only 4 lbs. for the camera, plus twelve for a backpack transmitter, the assembly sends pictures to half a mile. Price...
Sinerama. Though barely old enough to vote, brash, nightclub-pallid John J. Miller is precocious enough to be Broadway's most scurrilous keyhole peeper. For Manhattan's National Enquirer (circ. 119,055), a Sunday tabloid ("The World's Liveliest Paper") that caters to subway society with a churnful of cheesecake, a flutter of racing tips and leering feature stories (LANA TURNER: A GIRL NEEDS MORE THAN A BOSOM), Miller writes what is probably the yeastiest scandal column printed anywhere. Besides his own bylined sinerama each week, thick-set ("six feet when I stand up straight") John Miller...
...branches. The call of the titmouse was clear from the field. The spice bushes were in bud, and along the banks of the Potomac the willows were greening. Red maple was already painting the woods. From the bog water in the old unused canal came the song of peeper frogs...
Incautiously, perhaps, he did more-sent a fire-breathing young special prosecutor named Nelson F. Stamler into Bergen County with orders to wipe it clean as a peeper's telescope on a summer evening. Last week-31 months later-this abnormal development was still having an intensely disturbing effect on the turgid currents of Jersey politics...