Word: poked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When used as a club, the billy too often shatters on a suspect's skull, forcing a policeman to resort to his gun. The billy is better used to poke and jab at the kidneys and other vulnerable areas; law-enforcement experts are now urging more and better training in billy arts. Indeed, the billy itself can be improved...
Hinckle also quarreled with Keating over story ideas. While Hinckle favored conventional exposés of the CIA and the Warren Commission Report, Keating proposed more offbeat investigations. He suggested sending an undercover man to Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish to poke around a rumored "slave camp" for civil rights workers. Not only that, charged a Ramparts man, he even wanted to equip the gumshoe with a hollow heel containing a compass-so that he could find his way back again...
French shoppers are inveterate food feelers-they pinch tomatoes, squeeze head lettuce, pull artichoke leaves, even give cheese a little poke before stashing it in their shopping sacks. Michel Turquet, 46, a former supermarket manager with a technocratic bent, hopes to change all that. If he gets his way, francs will come before fondles...
...letters home. They all tell the same facts, but each is satanically slanted to fit in with the several views of him self that Patrick wants to cultivate: the dutiful son, the weak but loving husband, the homosexual friend in power. The letters also give Isherwood a chance to poke fun at Olde England in parodies ("This brassy tea, this wooden toast, these chalk-white scrambled eggs as dry as leather...
...Poking the Foibles. One of his most satiric series was his dozen oils of Hu-dibras, the central figure in Samuel Butler's scathing poem on puritanical hypocrisy. Hudibras was ignorant, conceited, preachy, distempered, vain-a cocksure jackass. Butler used him to poke fun at reformers, and so did Hogarth...