Word: poked
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...strung perimeter (see aerial photo), the cautious bo doi (infantrymen) cut trenches and L-shaped firing pits, hauled the dirt away in baskets and camouflaged their labors with brush. Though the camp's 400 montagnard defenders were patrolling assiduously up to ten miles away, no one thought to poke around his own front yard. Into each Communist pit went tidy stacks of ammo, a Chinese automatic rifle at one end, an ugly, snub-snouted 12.5-mm. antiaircraft machine gun at the other. Every emplacement was manned by a single gunner and designed so that he could scuttle quickly between...
...annual rite of human sacrifice, and dozens more stories and novels (Hangsaman, We Have Always Lived in the Castle) so horrific that it always surprised readers to learn that all this came from a contented wife and good-humored mother of four who could with equal facility poke gentle fun at her home life in two rollick ing Jean Kerr-like novels (Raising Demons, Life Among the Savages); of a heart attack; in North Bennington...
...that asinine group of professors at St. Louis' Washington University was a masterpiece. It should go down in history as "the perfect squelch." Let us hope that more of our officials take McBundy's fine example and slap a few of these intellectuals down when they poke their academic noses outside of their classrooms. Let's put uniforms on a few of them for a starter...
...m.p.h. in 9.7 seconds, faster than some sports cars, and the four-wheel disk brakes can stop it on a pfennig. A pneumatic suspension system keeps the car on an even keel through the sharpest curve, invisible wires in the rear window banish ice and frost, and a poke of the finger simultaneously locks all four doors, the trunk and the gas tank...
...then Greene began to poke at my conscience. A smiling, brightly scrubbed chorus sang, "...black and white together, we shall not be moved..." With the fields of waving rice, I could only nod my head...