Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House passed the $56 billion arms bill, 348 to 2.* Few bills have been voted by such a big majority with so little certainty; Congressmen knew they were buying an enormous pig in a poke-a pig representing three-fourths of the whole federal budget...
...whacked up the appropriation-$15.55 billion for the Navy, $19.85 billion for the Air Force, and $20.12 billion for the Army-and sat back to let the Senate take on the bureau chiefs of the Pentagon and bring out its version of the biggest pig in the most baffling poke...
...practice, a single fast airplane could lay a line of Grasshoppers all across a thinly inhabited stretch of enemy territory. They would lie dormant for a while. Then, just before an important bombing mission was due to take off, they would rise on their folding legs, poke out their antennas, and tell the oncoming bombers what kind of weather to expect over the target...
...first place? And why have they thrown such fantastic charges at him? Ambler thrusts his British journalist hero, Foster, into the thick of things to ask those questions, then leads him a chase to the answers. Foster trips over a corpse almost as soon as he begins to poke around...
...Groom Wore Spurs (Fidelity; Universal-International) tries to poke fun at a singing cowboy movie star (Jack Carson) who is a bit of a stinker, fears horses and cannot sing. Though the idea seems worth a farce, it is clumsily turned, geared to a creaky romance (involving Ginger Rogers as a lawyer) and powered by melodramatic nonsense. The joke proves to be not so much on western heroes as on Hollywood farceurs...