Word: poked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passenger and announced: "Well, it's public knowledge now. We're the biggest shareholders in Unocal." The master takeover tactician combines down-home shrewdness with boardroom savvy. While his talk is rich in good-ole-boy phrases like "that dog won't hunt" or "it's better than a poke in the eye with a stick," Pickens is every inch the businessman. In place of the pointed boots and Stetson hats that many independent oilmen wear, he favors sober gray suits, button-down shirts and striped ties. He rarely smiles, but when he does, the grin spreads slowly, almost reluctantly...
...indeed, an irritating challenge to provoke Bok to reveal something else about himself. He seems genuinely entertained when a reporter attempts to poke about and explore his personal life, to see what makes Bok tick. The president is fully aware that the interviewer isn't going to get anywhere...
McNamara was the last in a parade of 17 witnesses, most of them former high officials, produced by Westmoreland's lawyer to testify that the substance of the CBS documentary was untrue. CBS has attempted to poke holes in their testimony: last week Boies told the jury that Westmoreland had contradicted himself 20 to 25 times during his ten days on the stand...
...some ways, the most impressive acting comes from the "troupe," the group of inmates who do not have specific roles in Sade's play, but behave as a sort of raving chorus. Like naughty children, they play leapfrog, poke each other's middles, and pull each other's hair. They pick at their noses and masturbate, they jeer at actors who forget their lines...
THIS COMPLEX comedy of errors, however, is only an excuse for Wilde to poke fun at everything from English domestic life to French drama. Indeed, the structure of the play is a satire of the traditional English pastoral in which the degeneracy of the town is contrasted with the heightened, magical world of uncorrupted beauty found in the country...