Word: poked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, as government investigators continued to poke through some 300,000 seized Stonehill documents, Macapagal accepted the resignations of two Cabinet ministers; they were not guilty of any misdeeds, said the President, but they had been too closely associated with Stonehill; and members of the government, "like Caesar's wife, must be above suspicion...
Like Ride the High Country, Lonely Are the Brave is about a Westerner whom civilization has made an anachronism. The film is a western in spirit and setting but not in theme. Kirk Douglas plays a weatherbeaten cowpoke with mighty few cows left to poke. He is a loner, a maverick with a fence complex: he sees fences everywhere and hates them always. When he finds that an old pal is behind one-in jail-Douglas gets drunk, tangles with a barroom psycho, and manages to be thrown into the same hoosegow. He proposes to hacksaw some time...
...science exhibit for children eight to twelve years old (even the low-slung staircases are built to discourage adults) is one of the fair's best shows. Here kids can poke their arms into plastic sleeves to see how heavy a grapefruit is on Mars, spin on a platform by tilting a giant gyroscope, make wave patterns in water tanks, and watch a 40,000-member ant colony go busily about its cutaway civic activities...
Vaguely resembling refugees from about five different grade B pictures, the (choke) lovable characters from Soc Sci 2 gathered under the aegis of the Lowell House Drama Society Saturday and Sunday nights to poke this hallowed corner of the academic world full of large and funny holes...
...consider subversion the legitimate province of the satirist. If he's not in the business to overthrow one institution or another; if he's only in the business to poke irreverent but gentle fun, to amuse without biting, to comment without caring then, in my terms, he may be a lampoonist or a parodist or a light humorist, but he's not a satirist. A humorist will hold up a mirror, look at its reflection chuckle warmly and say "Well it's silly but its not such a bad reflection after all"; a satirist will have a darker view. That...