Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...including Pennsylvania, however. Said Republican Governor James (Big Jim) Duff as Dewey finished his western tour: "For the Republican Party to tie itself up to a single candidate for the presidency at this time . . . would be like selling the party a pig in a poke...
There was news aplenty for the sports fans. In San Francisco an enterprising rat fancier was busily training some 80 albino rats, their tails dyed distinguishing hues, to run races in a specially designed treadmill. "I just put 'em on the wheel and poke 'em," he said. "They get the idea pretty fast." In France, Britain's pigeon fanciers let loose some 4,000 prize birds in the France-to-England Grand National and Northeast Lancashire classics. Only 50% of the birds returned to England, but pigeon racers are philosophical about their hobby. What with the heat...
...easy to poke ridicule at Mr. White's book. His approach is by no means scholarly, and the informal, unscientific little polls on which he bases his conclusions as to the state of German opinion suffer by his own admission that, "It is particularly difficult for an American now to discover what Germans really think...
...British lion's paw, the Bertie McCormick (see PRESS) of the Niger Delta, a coconut grove Jim Farley, and one of the few people in the world who got a high opinion of the U.S. from washing dishes in a Pittsburgh waffle foundry and having Pugilist Jackie Zivic poke thumbs in his eyes...
...Nanking Government, always ready to take a poke at its enemies, the Chinese Communists, is more cautious about provoking the big Communist bear to the north. Last week the bonds of caution snapped...