Word: poked
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...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...
...girls' school full of schoolgirls, and it collects its share of laughs. The picture of the impeccable Jeeves devolving into Wooster or a starched headmistress is, in itself, enough to supply a right humorous air to the scene. The second act is more of this good stuff: a friendly poke at beastly aunts, a discourse on the proper waistcoat, and a drunken tirade shouted by a lovesick newt-fancier at a public school awards ceremony. The whole thing comes to a good old-fashioned musical finish with a bit of tap-dance and "Sonny...