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Word: pokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only two games that fall, and no one had given the Crimson much of a chance of contain them. But the 41st point touched off a dispute that threatened for a while to strain relations between the two old rivals, and gave Boston sports writers an unparalled chance to poke fun at the Crimson squad...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: 84 Seasons of Football's Greatest Rivalry | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

...radio, man has learned to send signals over mountains, across oceans, and up to the moon and back. But the search for a radio that could transmit signals beneath the water's surface was sterner. To receive messages in World War II, subs had to surface or poke up the antenna-bearing periscope and risk detection. Last week word leaked that the U.S. Navy has whipped this underwater communications problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Waves Under the Sea | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...Like a pig in a poke" is the way coach Bruce Munro describes this morning's soccer game with Columbia. The varsity will face the Lions here at 11 a.m., and nothing about the contest--not Columbia's strength, the Crimson's lineup, the rules, or the condition of the playing field--is without its own measure of uncertainty...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Soccer Squad Will Meet Columbia; Lions to Field Unpredictable Team | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

...have credentials to poke your nose into East Germany? You have been spoiled by everyone bowing down, by everyone cringing and crawling. I, as a former miner, have to say that I pity you as representing the working class, but your thinking is not of the working class. When Hearst says it, I am not offended. But when a representative of the workers says it, it is different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Krushchev Debates with U.S. Labor Leaders | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...poke your nose into our business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Krushchev Debates with U.S. Labor Leaders | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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