Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rare event. The planet Venus, 55 million miles from the earth in the solar system, was passing directly in front of the bright star Regulus in miniature eclipse, and though the two were 400 trillion miles apart (67 light-years), the star's light would enable them to poke deep into the atmosphere of Venus. It was an opportunity that might not occur again for 1,000 years...
...newsreel cameras he put on a pair of black-rimmed reading glasses and read briefly from a small piece of paper covered with typed notes: "I always love coming to America. But," he added with a wry poke at fast-traveling Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's gibes at U.S. leadership, "I shall not say-as most people who are traveling nowadays about the world seem to do-everything I think." Taken off to the White House in the President's bubbletop Lincoln, Winston Churchill rested, dined quietly with the Eisenhower family, turned in, at the President...
...rushes over to the conveyor belt, and for some reason starts to poke around in the molten mass of caramel...
...even India's docile Prime Minister Nehru was pictured as an archvillain who is holding the escaped Dalai Lama "under duress." Now India joined the list of monstrous enemies: Formosa, Britain, the U.S., even tiny states like Thailand and Nepal. "We will never allow those foul hogs to poke their snouts into our beautiful garden!" shouted a Congress delegate...
...senior Democratic Politico Harry Truman ventured a prediction: "I am telling you that the man, in my opinion, who will not be nominated for President on the Democratic ticket is one who will divide the country on race, religion or foreign policy." That prediction could be taken as a poke at such leading Democratic possibilities as Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, who has strongly liberal foreign policy notions. But Truman's reverse description of The Man Who was also carefully tailored to promote the Democrat that Truman actually would like...