Word: poked
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...They poke their 9-ft.-long, rubber-sheathed necks toward the row of automobile frames. From their beaks, a blinding shower of sparks streams forth. The escape of compressed air creates a loud hissing sound. This is Chrysler's sprawling 145-acre Jefferson plant in East Detroit, where the trouble-ridden firm is building the new K-cars-the Plymouth Reliant and Dodge Aries-that it hopes will save its future. Once 200 welders with their masks and welding guns used to work on such an assembly line. Here there are no welders in sight; there are only...
Terrier defensemen Deb Patsky set up the first tally by leading a rush up the left side and taking a slapshot which Tate deflected aside, but Devine was in position to poke the rebound into the net to give B.U. a 1-0 lead with just three minutes gone in the period...
...Whitney's show suggests the influence of cubism, let alone abstract art, although one might be able to detect some remote Fauve echo-perhaps through Albert Marquet, whose work he saw in Paris-in Hopper's fondness for relieving a low-toned background with a sudden distant poke of primary color: a coat, a flag or the red side of a brick chimney...
...protest the gratuitous poke at Betty Prashker of Doubleday, an editor of taste, skill and compassion. Editors, the best editors, do more than undangle participles and unsplit infinitives...
...with the bubbly acne of pain or turmoil; he knows that to address anything too close to the core will mean unsightly mess. He is too polite, too squeamish, or maybe too lazy to examine the innards, to ask his subjects to puke their guts out so he can poke around in them a little. Studs Terkel used the McPhee occupation-centered approach in his voluminous book Working; though he stuck religiously to his tape recordings, he managed, with his questions and with the inflections of an interviewer who understands, to draw out far more of the pain and slight...