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...Like a pig in a poke" is the way coach Bruce Munro describes this morning's soccer game with Columbia. The varsity will face the Lions here at 11 a.m., and nothing about the contest--not Columbia's strength, the Crimson's lineup, the rules, or the condition of the playing field--is without its own measure of uncertainty...
...have credentials to poke your nose into East Germany? You have been spoiled by everyone bowing down, by everyone cringing and crawling. I, as a former miner, have to say that I pity you as representing the working class, but your thinking is not of the working class. When Hearst says it, I am not offended. But when a representative of the workers says it, it is different...
...poke your nose into our business...
...rare event. The planet Venus, 55 million miles from the earth in the solar system, was passing directly in front of the bright star Regulus in miniature eclipse, and though the two were 400 trillion miles apart (67 light-years), the star's light would enable them to poke deep into the atmosphere of Venus. It was an opportunity that might not occur again for 1,000 years...
...newsreel cameras he put on a pair of black-rimmed reading glasses and read briefly from a small piece of paper covered with typed notes: "I always love coming to America. But," he added with a wry poke at fast-traveling Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's gibes at U.S. leadership, "I shall not say-as most people who are traveling nowadays about the world seem to do-everything I think." Taken off to the White House in the President's bubbletop Lincoln, Winston Churchill rested, dined quietly with the Eisenhower family, turned in, at the President...