Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every broadcast, Hope's scripters scout for atmosphere, poke into the files for gags that can be retrimmed, dream up new ones. Then they put their heads and hoards together, producing a script that Hope proceeds to tear apart-cutting, sharpening, fitting to character. Finally, before the Tuesday night broadcast (NBC -10 p.m. E.W.T.), there is a Sunday night sealed-in-the-studio tryout at which the audience acts as blue pencil and Hope runs hog-wild...
...past six weeks Farmer Stiles has been rising an hour earlier than usual, just to poke around his parched 440 acres. Last week the pea vines were fading to white splotches on their poles. Tomatoes and beans were all that had been salvaged from the quarter-acre vegetable patch...
...Miles an Hour. Under battle conditions, long convoys of blacked-out trucks nightly set out from each camp for supply dumps 30 and more miles away. They shun paved roads and blindly poke their painful way across country. Speeds are four to six miles an hour. For days on end, service troops spend less than four of every 24 hours in bed. They try to catnap in trucks grinding across the choppy desert; it is like sleeping in a concrete mixer...
Even this poke-in-the-nose failed to draw a retraction from O'Donnell, whose unsubstantiated blockbuster was a Jcruel blow to the WAACs and the war effort...
...consisted of some amazing X-ray transparencies. Each one appeared fuzzy to the naked eye, like seeing double. But through polaroid eyeglasses each transparency was a clear, three-dimensional, stereoscopic view into a body. A pencil moving over a film of the chest seemed to move among the ribs, poke the heart. Three dentist brothers, Edward, Milton, Harold Klein, perfected the method...