Word: peering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Office of Undergraduate Affairs has proposed the formation of an "umbrella" organization designed to coordinate the work of student groups offering peer counselling...
Down by the bay, San Francisco's Marina Green was filled with people shaking off the damp of the past few rainy weeks. There were joggers, dog walkers, Frisbee flingers and one lanky gentleman intently reading on the grass. No one bothered to peer over his shoulder. And that was just as well. James Louis Browning Jr., 42, the U.S. Attorney prosecuting both Sara Jane Moore and Patty Hearst, was studying a document recovered from the house where Patty was captured. Why bring such sensitive reading to the park? "Well, I wanted to get some sun," said Browning...
Some Houses are more popular than others, and that situation won't change under a forced-assignment plan; students are intelligent enough and free enough from the tyranny of peer pressure to realize that under a Yale plan differences between the Houses will be the same as they are now. It is inconceivable that the people who now complain about living at the Quad will, after being forced there at the beginning rather than the end of freshman year, be completely happy with...
Last year this policy resulted in the performance of such gems as More Stately Mansions, probably the worst play Eugene O'Neill ever wrote, and Ibsen's four-hour monstrosity Peer Gynt, which lost half its audience at intermission. The Tutor, unfortunately, stands squarely in this venerable Loeb tradition, succeeding neither as allegory nor as entertainment...
When collectors and dealers walked by their gate to call on Villon, Kupka and his mountainous wife Eugenie would peer through the shutters at them, too proud to show themselves. The collectors never stopped at the Kupkas'. In the past, they had been so poor that Eugenie Kupka now and then had to buy old tablecloths and underwear in the flea market, launder them and sell them to raise a few francs...