Word: peering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stoma than in Tom. Once when a doctor left him for a moment to call in colleagues, Tom disappeared from the examining table. After that he would let doctors listen to his chest and look down his throat, but he would not let them look at his stoma nor peer through it at his stomach...
Axis citizens who could peer through the propaganda learned other things that made the week a bleak one for the Axis...
...often broken the goal's netting. Despite his Bronko Nagurski bulk, Gonsalves has the nimbleness of a Red Grange. At dribbling, volleying, jumping and tackling (snaring a ball from an opponent by clever footwork), he can match his stringier colleagues. At heading, too, Gonsalves has no peer. He butts with prodigious accuracy, has headed a mud-heavy ball smack into...
...Quebec to accept the degree of Doctor of Laws from Laval University went lanky Viscount Halifax, British Ambassador to the U.S. The devout Anglo-Catholic peer found one of the war's fundamental causes in "the continuous erosion" of Christianity in the past century. He noted that every attempt to eradicate Christianity has eventually placed the destroyers in the awkward position of cooking up a substitute. The French invented the Goddess of Reason, the Russians substituted "the abstraction of social collectivity," and - Hitler himself selected the formula of the Nazi faith -"the saving doctrine of the nothingness and insignificance...
...edged forward on the rug, trying to peer into the crystal ball. "Go on, Shad," I said. "What next...