Word: poked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl cutting his toenails while another officer preens before a mirror, is a hilarious lampoon of Gallic lust and vanity. In The Return, Portsmouth Point and The Great Hall (for which Rowlandson farmed out the background, did only the figures), the satirist turned on his native land to poke fun at the rowdiness of the toughs and the smugness of the toffs. But beyond the brawling and posturing lie England's manicured countryside, its proud fleet and its stately halls-eloquent testimony, lovingly brushed, that the world of Thomas Rowlandson was not inhabited by knaves and fools alone...
...flying wedge of policemen forced an opening for the Mercedes, and in the melee a picket took a poke at a patrolman and was arrested. Another picket, Gloyd Richards, 40, swore out a complaint charging that athletic, 6-ft. 4-in. Egbert had dramatically offered to take on pickets "one at a time." Egbert was taken to a police station on a disorderly conduct charge and freed on $50 bail. Later he went on television, said that Striker Richards had "made a whale out of a min now." Egbert was soon receiving telegrams praising him for what he was accused...
...parking space-and missed the trains. Postmen were careful to take only the regulation 35-lb. load on their rounds. According to the rules, mail must be delivered only through the recipient's mailbox or handed to him personally; normally, if there is no mailbox, the postmen simply poke letters through a window or, if the recipient is out, hand them to a neighbor. Now all mail that could not be left in a mailbox or delivered personally went straight back...
...shuffle, danced very quickly to shuffle-sounding music, with a shuffle beat. In order to take the form of a penguin, each dancer keeps his arms at his sides with palms extended in a position parallel with the floor to imitate the flippers. When the music stops, the dancers poke each other in the stomach and yell, "Whee...
Sail Away (Original Broadway Cast; Capitol). Noel Coward's strenuously hedonistic lines sound a little weary here, and his wit is Princeton Tiger '24 ("If you want to play strip poke /With the girls in cabin B/ Come to me, dear boys, come to me." But in a couple of songs (Where Shall I Find Him?, Later than Spring) Elaine Stritch whoops it up as if she were really riding a winner...