Word: peering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plans for the coming year. They included routine hopes for increased production and exports, plans to cut the armed forces, to grant independence to Burma, to nationalize the gas industry, and to revamp the criminal code. Tucked in among the expected announcements was one bombshell sentence which hit Tory, peer and commoner alike. "Legislation," said the King in his slightly halting voice, "will be introduced to amend the Parliament...
...interested as Alice in Wonderland, Houston shoppers last week crowded into a new kind of department store-window-less,* monolithic Foley's. On the opening day, 200,000 customers came to blink at the indirect lighting, peer through streamlined showcases at $6,500,000 worth of merchandise and enjoy the air conditioning (it was 89° outside...
Chaperoning is not enforceable; the only actual checkups are made by zealous or the Yard police, who are eager to climb the dizzy heights of Matthews or Thayer on what may well be a fool's errand, or to peer in rooms suspiciously at embarrassed residents and their lady friends. If couples want to evade the law, there is little to stop them. "Chaperons" may suggest a stern body of older men who sit stiffly on the edge of their chairs and rivet their eyes on guilty pairs, but they are actually no more than friends from across the hall...
...also being visited by a plague of annoying and unannounced nickel, dime and dollar jumps in the price of all kinds of small goods and services. Restaurant prices were developing a habit of rising as much as 10? to 50? overnight. Some radio repairmen were charging more to peer into a receiving set than a physician asked for a sick call. It even cost more to go broke-the fee for filing bankruptcy papers in U.S. district courts went up from...
...Fourcade of Strasbourg, a specialist, demonstrated a new method of ascertaining the respective positions of killed and killer in murders where a pistol is fired through a windowpane. Dr. Muller of Lille spoke on "Encouraging Toxicomania with the View of Inheriting Money." He cited the case of a British peer whose addiction to morphine had been fatally nurtured by his greedy relatives. The most striking report was made by four Yugoslav doctors on war crimes...