Word: poked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brooklyn, too, had six runs and Larsen was taking a shower. Don Newcombe, the Dodgers' 27-game winner who seems constitutionally incapable of winning in the series, failed again, unhappily slouched off the field under the Yankees' second-inning fusillade, later relieved his frustration by taking a poke at a heckling parking-lot attendant. But his teammates went on a rampage. Stengel flung one pitcher after another into the fray (for a World Series record of seven), but the Dodgers hit them all impartially and often, whenever they were not drawing walks (the Yankees' seven pitchers issued...
...turn had come when Aline Bernstein, in Three Bine Suits, gave her version of their love affair. Sounding exactly like one of his own victims, Tom wrote her a note complaining that the book would "get pawed over and whispered about by wretched, verminous little people who want to poke around, pick out identities and gloat over . . . scandalous morsels...
...next to me agreed. "Can you imagine that?" he said and poked my ribs. I shrugged my shoulders. "Can you imagine that?" he repeated with greater emphasis and a harder poke. "I can't imagine that at all," I said. He smiled, "That's the old Joe Smith spirit...
...both convention cities. To harness all the new gadgetry, some 2,700 radio-TV people have already swept into the Midwest, hauling 60 tons of electronic eavesdroppers (cameras no bigger than a Cracker Jack box), Dick Tracy walkie-talkies, mini-corders, creepie-peepies and giant telescopic cranes that can poke around into hotel windows from the street. ¶ Automatic tabulating boards, flashing the changing total of delegation votes, will be superimposed on the viewer's screen so that he will not lose sight of the main convention activity. ¶ Devices for splitting screens into five segments will enable viewers...
...such limits, church leaders, e.g., Cardinals Stritch of Chicago and Mclntyre of Los Angeles, have called for more controversy in the Catholic press on public issues of the day. Said Editor Bosler to his colleagues last week: "Even the most timid of Catholic editors these days is emboldened to poke his head out of his shell and to take a look around. And high time it is, too." Added the Rev. Thurston Davis, Editor of America: "Catholics, of course, think and judge alike on matters of faith and morality. But on all other matters, usually of a social, economic...