Word: peering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Jacob Niles entered and retired from the hall to the din of a reverent ovation, and that made him happy. For Niles was obviously pleased to be at Harvard, to "step temporarily out of retirement," to "peer into the bright, charming, and eager faces" that surrounded him, and relive once again the ballads and love songs that have been his life...
...front of the Third Army, Abrams was frequently cut off. "They've got us surrounded again," he once said, "those poor bastards." Said General George Patton of his aggressive tank commander: "I'm supposed to be the best tank commander in the Army, but I have one peer-Abe Abrams. He's the world champion...
...armies or popular following, but his work is worth uncounted divisions to the West. He has neither title nor portfolio, but he has privileged access to every chancellery of Western Europe. He has no formal higher education, but the world's most brilliant economists regard him as their peer. He has never joined a political party, but parliamentarians across Europe flock to his summons. His name is Jean Monnet, and he is the practical apostle of European unity whose new. growing organizations-notably the Common Market-are remaking the scarred old face of Europe and changing the balance...
...modern fiction, ranging from a scrofulous teen-aged novelist named Leo Piper to Billy Box, a softhearted symphony conductor who spends much of his time kidnaping animals from research laboratories. In the end, Ninian returns to Silverwood, but the clocks have advanced too far, and he can no longer peer out at the world with the old "monastic calm." Nor, for that matter, can the reader...
Rolling in the Red. These are times that have all railroaders trying to peer down the road ahead-and recoiling from what they see. In the 19th century, when they were the only practical means of mass transportation by land, the railroads thrust their iron tentacles into virtually every U.S. town, developed such vast capacity that today they could still carry all the nation's freight-and then some. But for more than a generation, trucks and buses, barges and planes have been biting into the business of moving goods and people, until now the railroads' share...