Word: poked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admiring judge-and packed courtroom-that she had bowled over a few of the boys. But she staunchly denied that a popped button on her blouse had triggered the stampede. Purred Anita: she had all her buttons and only ran abreast of the crowd because "some people tried to poke their hands through the car window-for what purpose, I don't know...
...military significance is great, may solve the major problem of missile shots from submarines: determining the exact distance and direction from the sub to the target. Cruising underwater far off the beaten track and out of loran's range, a nuclear submarine will be able to poke a whip antenna above the surface, take a fix on the nearest Transit satellite, and blaze away with lethal accuracy...
...Violent Bear It Away, by Flannery O'Connor. In this chilling novel of backwoods religion, the author writes extremely well, but seems to poke a cruel kind of fun at the confused and bedeviled...
...Violent Bear It Away, by Flannery O'Connor. In this chilling novel of backwoods religion the author writes extremely well, but sometimes seems to poke a cruel kind of fun at the confused and God-bedeviled...
...Choshu clansmen in the affair of Shimonoseki Strait. At a Cabinet meeting in April 1944 he told Tojo: "Saipan is Japan's lifeline. If Saipan falls, surrender. It is the silliest thing on earth to keep fighting after that." Tojo shouted angrily: "Don't poke your nose into the affairs of the supreme command!" Thirteen days after the bloody U.S. conquest of Saipan, Tojo's Cabinet fell...