Word: peering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mural itself will serve as the back wall of a new airtight chamber, to be kept at about 64°. The front wall will be a sheet of glass 46 feet high, for visitors to peer through...
This seemed to mean that, in return for a chance for Soviet citizens to inspect atomic plants in the U.S. and elsewhere, Russia would let non-Soviet citizens peer (to some still undefined degree) at what Russia was doing...
...Business." You peer inside a tobacco and cake shop on Nankwan Street. It is a cubicle of dried mud and sticks, windowless, papered with yellowing sheets of the Liberation Daily. Proprietor Yang Huan-chang, a snaggle-toothed elder of 60, greets you as "Comrade," invites you in for a smoke...
...positive duty is now "to consult, to encourage and to warn." But the King can still-theoretically-without consulting Parliament, disband his country's Army, sell all the Navy's ships, dismiss most of the civil servants, pardon all criminals, close all churches, create every citizen a peer, pick his own Prime Minister, and declare war on anyone he chooses. In practice, no King-or Queen-would dare do one of these things...
...methods for making Communists more effective were the object, the recent proposal of Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach could hardly find a peer. When he told the House Labor Committee that the Communist Party should be banned from the ballot and, generally speaking, outlawed, the Secretary showed a surprising amount of naivete on the problem with which he is concerned...