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Word: peeping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure enough, after my last final that spring, I sprinted from last final as fast as I could, giddier than Pee-Wee Herman at an all-day peep show...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: That Problem Set Doesn't Really Matter Much | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...Jets roared over Austin in "missing man" formation, while beneath the rotunda, in hour after hour of bloodstained oratory, brows were darkened and teeth gnashed over the fate of Our Boys. It was a patriotic orgy, although, as the Texas Observer noted at the time, no one uttered a peep about exactly what Our Boys were doing over there when they got caught. One received the impression that they had been mysteriously kidnapped while distributing gum to small children; almost all of them were professional military pilots engaged in the heaviest aerial bombardment in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Billionaire Boy Scout: ROSS PEROT | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

...among the organizations which usually work to promote positive intergroup relations on campus is speaking out. There is a Radcliffe Union of Students representative sitting on the Foundation's Students Advisory Council. With no peep of protest, it seems that women on campus and the group that advocates women's concerns were not offended by funding the dissemination of the minister's sexist remarks...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: The Foundation for Intercultural Hypocrisy | 3/6/1992 | See Source »

...active, reasoned exercise of citizenship. It comes because we don't trust anyone. It is part of the cafard the '80s induced: Wall Street robbery, the savings and loan scandal, the wholesale plunder of the economy, an orgy released by Reaganomics that went on for years with hardly a peep from Congress -- events whose numbers were so huge as to be beyond the comprehension of most people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fraying Of America | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

...Palestinian negotiators. They lack a mandate to accept the compromises that may be necessary for reaching a settlement. If they make concessions to Israel, there is the possibility they will be labeled traitors to the Palestinian cause; at worst, they risk violence. Beneath the vibrant bougainvilleas that peep over the wall ^ surrounding Palestinian interlocutor Faisal Husseini's Jerusalem home is a warning message branding him a "surrenderist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Let the Game Begin | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

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