Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simply made fewer errors on defense, skated faster, and showed more skill on breakaways than the Crimson. Too often the varsity defenders were content to poke check at their own blue line, often letting their man get through...
Rickover's Rakeover. With a seaman's instinct for omens, Commander Anderson early spotted his future. As a boy, in Bakerville, Tenn., he and a playmate would seal off most of the decks of a couple of rowboats, invert the craft on the river, poke their heads into the unsealed air pockets and stage mock U-boat fights. Annapolis trained, with an outstanding submariner record in World War II and Korea (Trutta, Tang, Wahoo), Anderson was tapped for duty with Admiral Hyman Rickover's NRB (Naval Reactors Branch) in January 1956. First came an interview with...
...keep up his reputation as a man of independence, Yugoslavia's President Tito must take a poke from time to time at his old pals in the Soviet bloc. These attacks do not change things in the East, where Tito is in bad odor; but they do land him on front pages in the West, where he is considered only half safe. And they enhance his prestige among the neutralists as a Very Important Person who is still eagerly wooed by both East and West...
...Volcanoes Above Us, by Norman Lewis. The unquiet sport of baiting Quiet Americans gains another fictional recruit as Author Lewis uses a Guatemalan setting to deliver a scurrilous poke at Uncle Sam below the banana belt...
Arkansas' Senator John McClellan and his labor investigating committee reconvened in Washington last week to poke some more into the rats' nest of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Into the committee's hearing room came San Antonio's Roy J. Gilbert to tell how the Teamsters had tried to organize his 135-vehicle Southwestern Motor Transport, Inc. in 1955. When he balked at the Teamsters' demands, Gilbert said, they stoned and tossed homemade fire bombs at his trucks, planted marijuana in the cars of Southwestern employees, made threatening telephone calls. They also considered shooting Gilbert...