Word: poked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing is a pointed poke at solemn youth, but the poke is so obviously accompanied by so many friendly winks that even its victims will enjoy...
Birdsall's two last-period goals both came on one-man plays. Doug Bradlee passed to him at the Eliot blue line on the first, and he carried in from there to score; the second time, he poke-checked Davenport's left defenseman, grabbed the puck and scored on a shot almost identical to the previous...
Also in Houston, where he was named an honorary Texan, Lauritz Melchior took a verbal poke at Metropolitan Opera Manager Rudolph Bing. Had he and Bing yet worked out a new contract at the Met? Cracked Melchior: "I recently became a lone star, and this honorary citizenship in the Lone Star State confirms...
...Daily Express' interpretation of a Labor proposal for government cultivation of unused private land. To Lord Rother-mere's Daily Mail, the Labor Party manifesto was "a blank check on nationalization"; to his Evening News, it was a "pink overall," a "pink pig in a poke" or "a great red wolf...