Word: poked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twist a lion's tail when there is no longer a lion attached. He loved to tease the middle class, but in a welfare state, the middle class has lost both the hopes of fortune and the fears of penury upon which Shaw played. He loved to poke fun at lower-class blighters who dropped their H's, and today-irony of ironies-the sons of those blighters, and not he or his disciples, are the ruling dramatists of the English stage. -T.E.K...
...Rangers, under the direction of coach Emile "the Cat" Francis, have come a long way from the days when Harry Howell and Larry Cahan used to inadvertently poke the puck by the beleaguered Ranger goalie, Gump Worsley...
...British never seem to lack for good playwrights. They have an uncanny gift for writing well about their nation even when they think ill of it. They can poke peevishly in the guttering embers of empire and the grate of memory flickers with glories past. David Storey has an option on this territory, and he looks back more in grief than in anger. He searches for the severed link with the imperial past. How did today's termites, he seems to ask, descend from yesterday's titans? He is a dramatic laureate of loss...
...Drum Culture. The hardest hit of all the states has been one of the most remote. Alaska's Aleutian Island chain is littered with an enormous potpourri of debris. More than 2,000 World War II-vintage Quonset huts still poke like ugly blisters above the desolate landscape of Amchitka, the site of this month's scheduled underground nuclear blast. Bomber tails and ruptured fuselages litter the island. An estimated one million fuel drums are scattered on Alaska's north coast. At least 100,000 drums, left by builders of DEW-line radar sites in the 1950s...
There was time for one more poke at the world of rock as the Mothers plunged into "Happy Together," the old Turtles hit, played Zappa style. The audience was rolling in the aisles, begging for it not to end...but it did. Zappa politely thanked everyone for coming to the concert, and then left...