Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against the massive armada commanded by the U.S.'s gimlet-eyed Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, little Shimada had thrown an inferior task force. He had planned the action so cautiously that his force did not come within hundreds of miles of Spruance's guns. But it did poke its nose within range of Spruance's naval aircraft. That was enough...
...argument had blown since Mackinac in September; Wendell Willkie had been smashed in Wisconsin; in the lack of enlightened leadership toward an effective internationalism, the U.S. people seemed more & more to side with Senator Robert La Follette's reluctance "to buy an international pig in a beautiful poke...
Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art celebrated its 15th birthday last week. The celebration took the form of a massive show which was to earlier Modern Museum shows as lightning to static electricity. Only at the risk of shin splints did gallerygoers poke into all the corners of the Museum's spectacular open house. Outstanding were...
Copper-Bellied Corpse. The American folk who emerge from this lore are robust, daredevil, imaginative, fond of broad humor, tender love, great deeds, crude, rude, sometimes full of noble sentiment, sometimes intolerant. They glorify outlaws (Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid), poke fun at woodsmen (Mike Fink, Davy Crockett), sanctify Johnny Appleseed. The U.S. gift for tall talk is flaunted in Sven, the Hundred Proof Irish man, and speeches by General Buncombe ("Sir, we want elbow room - the continent, the whole continent - and nothing but the continent"). The U.S. talent for epithet is flaunted...
...Progressives are realists. They know that the United States cannot buy the friendship of other nations. . . . Progressives will not cooperate in any efforts to force the United States to buy an international pig in a beautiful poke. . . ." Then the Progressive Party framed its foreign-policy plank: "Our greatest contribution to world peace will be determined by what America does for Americans...