Word: poke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard, patient mop-up in the dreary mud of the rainy season. On Mindanao U.S. troops worked slowly toward Mount Apo, highest peak in the Islands, where retreating Japs melted back into the brushy, green slopes. North on Luzon opposition was lighter, and Sixth Army forces were able to poke a long, strong finger deep into the Cagayan Valley where some 20,000 of General Tomoi-juki Yamashita's troops were cornered. Explained one grinning, bowing Jap prisoner: "Yamashita no good...
...that Flynn soon made him a regional director for the party. Two years later Franklin Roosevelt asked him to become the party's secretary-treasurer to wipe out a deficit of $750,000. Ed Pauley did the job. By last summer he was a big-enough shot to poke wavering delegates in the chest with a heavy forefinger, nudge them into line for Harry Truman. His sales talk: "We're not nominating a Vice President; we're nominating the next President...
...taking a poke at Stalin...
...Feichi ch'a wan liao" ("The airplanes have finished bombing") an officer reports to the Chinese general. The general orders a ten-minute wait, hoping the Japs will poke their heads out of their dugouts to look for our infantry...
...beady eyes peering at him from a dark corner, flushed out a shiny-booted, handsomely uniformed German. Cringing no longer, the prisoner strutted about, barked orders: he would not surrender to a sergeant-go get an officer of high rank. O'Reilly's response: a pistol poke in the German's ample belly. He meekly joined the other prisoners...