Word: peeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Readers who know that it takes ships, planes, artillery and service troops to get the infantryman within range of a live target, may feel that Pratt has cheered the role of the foot soldier to the point of oversimplification. Actually he takes nothing away from the other arms; his peep-sight view merely assumes that their work had already been done. None of these sketches is exhaustive, but every one is readable, informal history that few armchair tacticians would wish to miss and few professional soldiers could fail to learn from. What will keep Eleven Generals and many a plain...
Every now & then, Nye Bevan gets away from his desk and takes a stroll along the seaside with several old cronies. He will stop at a stall to eat winkles, go wild on the swings, and will not miss a single peep show of the "What the Butler Saw" species. During one of these strolls, recently, Bevan dropped a penny into a fortune-telling slot machine. The note which the machine returned declared: "Not another personality is as sparkling as yours, nor a personality with such inherent righteousness...
...February, forsythia bloomed on Long Island, Maryland's spring peepers started to peep, and shirtsleeved New Yorkers lay on green grass in Central Park. In violent contrast, Southern Californians shoveled snow this winter for the first time in their lives, and the stiff bodies of frozen cattle broke the blades of rotary snowplows in blizzard-bound Montana...
That was the last real peep out of the Western powers. Soft-spoken U.S. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon could hardly be heard across the conference table...
...excellence of "Naked City" lies not in the enormity or the intrinsic bloodiness of the crimes, but in the adroit juxtaposition of familiar surroundings with unusual events. Of course it is an escape picture, in which the audience is allowed an exciting peep behind a city's facade of respectability, but the treatment, so much better than in most films of this class, counterbalances the natural and inevitable weaknesses...