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Word: peeping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occasionally, a not-unhappy face would peep through a tiny slot to tell us, "Yes, I'll vote for Lindsay, what choice do I have ?" or perhaps to tell us, "He's well-intentioned...

Author: By David Sellinger, | Title: How I Won the War: Canvassing for John Lindsay | 11/10/1969 | See Source »

...these dangers don't scare passengers away, there may be enough other annoyances so that SSTs will become commercial flops. The zooming acceleration will be too fast for the standard passenger's taste, Shurcliffe says, and the peep-hole windows will make for an unpicturesque flight. The speed advantage could conceivably overcome these annoyances, but Shurcliffe suggests a more compelling limitation. Since the needle-shaped SSTs will hold fewer passengers but cost more to run than conventional jumbo jets, fares will be much higher for SST trips. And so, Shurcliffe suggests, airlines that had stocked up on fleets of SSTs...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Here Comes the Boom | 2/13/1969 | See Source »

When two years went by without a peep from the lbis, a classified ad appeared in the Crimson on October 5, 1963: "IBIS. Local Bird lover seeks large metal one last seen stop building on Bow Street. Send information to Crimson Box 3447. Confidential. No questions aked...

Author: By Betsy Nadas, | Title: Salute to Times Past: The Lampoon lbis | 6/3/1968 | See Source »

...fish-and watch his smoke. The 70-lb. white marlin that died like a guppy on the end of 130-lb. line suddenly came alive when the rig was reduced to 30 lb., flashing across the ocean in wild greyhounding leaps; the 50-lb. wahoo that expired without a peep on the end of 80-lb. test lived up to his name on 20 lb.; the 10-lb. bonefish that rolled belly up on 20 lb. became a raging demon on 6-lb. or better still, 4-lb. test, ripping off line so fast that it sounded like a sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: Light Fantastic | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

JOHN WESLEY HARDING (Columbia) is Bob Dylan's long-awaited new album, the first public peep from him since his motorcycle accident in 1966. His new songs are simple and quietly sung, some about drifters and hoboes, with morals attached, some with religious overtones, including I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine and a parable about Judas Priest. The catchiest number is the last, a swinging proposal called I'll Be Your Baby Tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 9, 1968 | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

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