Word: poked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steak dinners at his country place at Fair Haven, N. J. His wife, Josie, likes to entertain his friends. They have no children. He smokes cigarets incessantly, drinks much coffee, is a bundle of nervous energy, able to sleep best at the movies although his snoring causes people to poke him and wake...
...Seyyid Hikmat Suleiman, Prime Minister of Iraq who issued a spate of violent pronouncements damning the partition. Arab chiefs promptly assumed that Prime Minister Suleiman's outburst was part of "a British job." They argued that if Britain really favored the partition, Iraq would not have dared poke her nose...
When Carver got to Tuskegee he had to poke around in scrap heaps for spare parts with which to build apparatus. With his junkpile equipment he experimented with peanuts, and as the list of surprising products he extracted from them grew longer, his fame traveled farther. Thomas Alva Edison offered him a job, but Carver stayed at Tuskegee. From peanuts he made nearly 300 substances; from sweet potatoes 118, including starch, vinegar, shoe-blacking, library paste, candy. He showed proficiency in cooking and artistic needlework. He made dyes from clay, dandelions, onions, beans, tomato vines, trees. One of his dyes...
...goes out over the nation. And the old people in the hills of West Virginia realize that the young men of Harvard or of Yale or of Columbia and the young men of the United States are for peace or war or whatever they are for. When you poke fun at peace demonstrations, remember that. Remember that the student, whatever scorn or contumely be at times levelled at him, is in the minds of the mass of the citizenry most looked up to as a group. To the mass of citizenry if not to himself he is a hope...
...Down. Cried he: "There can be no human or personal rights without property rights." They paid even less attention to the resolution which Representative Dies introduced for a House investigation of the Sit-Down and its causes. Even under the Old Deal, no Congressional investigating committee ever dared poke its nose far into the affairs of Labor. Under the New Deal, which has missed few chances to turn the limelight on Capital's transgressions. Labor's inviolability has been unquestioned. The Dies resolution was quietly turned over to the potent Rules Committee, from which few bills unwelcome...