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Word: poked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...reserves the right to poke, pry, carp, coo and criticize at will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Real Romance | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...Bruins got the jump on the Crimson, which never could got its attack clicking consistently. Cooney Weiland's sextet fought Brown on even terms after the first period, but it was too late. The Brown defense's poke-checking, and good back-checking by Bruin forwards, along with excellent play by goalie Don Whiston, told the story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Thwacks Hockey Team, 4-1 | 1/10/1951 | See Source »

...Daily Free-Lance, was knocked down by an irate subscriber who objected to a Free-Lance story on the arrest of his 23-year-old daughter for speeding. Publisher Gourley's good-natured editorial comment: "Who wants to interfere with an American's right to take a poke at the editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In the Ring | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...Funsters, heavy underdogs, surprised the Bunnies, scoring on their first attempt, on a crease shot by Mitch Rosenholtz. Jim Philips then tied it up for Leverett with a close-in poke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett's Sextet Tops Dunster, 3-2 | 12/19/1950 | See Source »

Pits & Pie. Pogo, which frequently takes a poke at U.S. manners & morals, usually sticks to such personal problems as Porky's courting of Mam'selle Hepzibah, a skunk with a French accent. To help Porky, Albert and Churchy offer their services as serenaders, sing in typical Pogo style: "Oh, pick a pock of peach pits, pockets full of pie, foreign twenty blackboards baked until they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Possum Time | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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