Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time in Weiland's career at Harvard, the hockey squad fielded three excellent forward lines which worked together with good passing precision. In back of them were two defense pairs which, despite shaky moments, poke-checked and cleared extremely well...
...send Richards out there as soon as he was employed, and get his program?" asked Russell sharply. "It seems to me he could have flown out there and gotten back by now and given Congress his recommendations. We are being asked to buy a pig in the poke." Dulles flushed. Pounding on the table with clenched fist, he snapped: "If Congress is not willing to trust the President to the extent he asks, we can't win this battle. If we have to pinpoint for every country, including the Communists, every step we are to take, this resolution will...
Hope flared last week among viewers who may have longed to see a subject of This Is Your Life poke M.C. Ralph Edwards in the nose that he sticks weekly into a private past. The week's subject: Jack Dempsey. The ex-heavyweight champion, now 61, was the prize catch so far among celebrities whom Edwards has tricked unsuspecting into TV camera range for exposure to a parade of memory-rattling acquaintances, some of whom they have forgotten (or would just as soon forget). But the Manassa Mauler was caught with his guard down in the middle...
...then took a poke at M.I.T.'s decision to allow undergraduates to take half their courses in the humanities: "They are now allowed to become 50 per cent cultured...
Your most recent poke at my father [Nov. 5] was totally uncalled for, and touches a lower level than usual, even for TIME. His news "checks out" as correct far more often than your slanted reporting...