Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five days cheering Capetonians lined the royal routes and jampacked the parade grounds next to the City Hall to get a glimpse of the visitors, of Princess Margaret's poke bonnets, and the Queen's ostrich feathers. South African couturiers expected both to set a new style. (Since South Africa is a leading producer of ostrich feathers, this feature of the Queen's costume attracted special attention.) At a Civic Ball in the town, Princess Elizabeth danced the Princess Foxtrot (composed in her honor) with Cape Town's Mayor Abe Bloomberg. On the following...
Before the Navy gives way to the Antarctic winter, mapping planes may try to find out if Antarctica is really a single continent. Two deep indentations, the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea, poke toward one another through its frozen heart. Are the seas connected by a strait choked with eternal ice? This, says Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, is "the world's greatest unsolved geographical puzzle...
...proof, Wegener pointed to a map. If the drifting continents were pushed together again, they would fit rather neatly. The bulge of Brazil would poke into the Gulf of Guinea. Eastern Canada would fit roughly against Scotland. Spain would snuggle into the Caribbean...
Last week, Edmond Joseph Moran, a small (5 ft. 6 in.) man who looks more like a drapery salesman than the boss of the world's biggest tugboat company, prepared to poke the snubbed noses of two 194-ft. tugs into the Dutchmen's private pond...
Season's Greetings. In New Britain, Conn., a five-year-old boy took a poke at a department-store Santa Claus, explained to his horrified mother: "He didn't bring me the bicycle he promised me last year...