Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is no need for the party to buy a pig in a poke. The New Dealers and the me-tooers say that Bob Taft lacks color and glamour. To this I say he has the color of ability, the color of experience, the color of courage . . . Hero worship is no substitute for faith based on known performance. Neither is glamour or sex appeal. If we as a party, at this late date, propose to risk our political future on such slender attributes, then I say the party is dead and we are met here today merely to select...
...rest of the story, how man discovered the atom bomb and began to think and then DID something about it, is as delightful as it is simple. Tashlin has taken an old idea and given it his own special poke, which makes The World That Isn't laughable, believable, and desirable...
...movement was not making much of a dent in the Taft stronghold in the Midwest. Snapped the Chicago Tribune last week, commenting on Eisenhower's candidacy: "The American people are asked to buy a pig in a poke. They are asked to accept as a Republican a man whose whole career has been achieved through New Deal patronage . . . Why should the party advertise that it is utterly wanting in conviction by accepting a candidate who represents the basic tenets of the opposition...
Only four of the five judges wore the traditional tam-o'-shanter caps, but all five were traditionalist enough to get down on their hands & knees to peer and poke at the curlicues of ice shavings. The occasion, solemnified at Indianapolis last week by the undignified postures of the judges: the figure skating tryouts for the U.S. Olympic team...
...Slow Poke (Arthur Godfrey; Columbia), a fast-moving hillbilly song about a girl (or a fellow) with all the time in the world. A surprisingly straightforward Godfrey version of a number that is breaking out all over the bestseller lists, and climbing hard...