Word: peered
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Roberts said it was valuable to be able tospeak with Lee, "hold him almost as a peer andhave him shout at people in class and rebut andget defensive...
THEY WERE, BY FAR, THE LARGEST and most distant objects that scientists had ever detected: a swath of gargantuan cosmic clouds some 15 billion light-years from earth. But even more important, it was the farthest that scientists had ever been able to peer into the past, for what they were seeing were the patterns and structures that existed 15 billion years ago. That was just about the moment -- or more precisely, an infinitesimal 300,000 years after the moment -- that the universe was born. What the researchers found was at once both amazing and expected: NASA'S Cosmic Background...
...hard to believe that this exceedingly lame showing is the product of the Reagan and Bush administrations; what good is blue-chip Republican Babbittry if it can't mount an impressive world's fair pavilion? Elsewhere at Expo, the Berlin Philharmonic will play, and Ingmar Bergman will direct Peer Gynt; at the U.S. pavilion, Arnold Schwarzenegger will stop by in September to judge a bodybuilding contest...
From the well-preserved contents of middens, scientists using radiocarbon dating can peer thousands of years into the past to discern when climates changed, why civilizations withered and how plants and animals migrated...
...They developed over time," says Lord Bullock -- he became a life peer in 1976 -- so he decided to study that process in a comparative, parallel biography of the two, something no one else has done. Bullock is the author of Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (1952), the first great postwar biography of the dictator. "I'm a narrative historian, and in the course of the narrative," he says, "it comes clear" precisely how Hitler and Stalin rose to supreme power in Germany and Russia...