Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went through an awfully hectic week, dashing about for more public appointments, ceremonies, speeches and meetings than reporters could remember in months. They were at a loss to account for it all until last week, when it came out that Writer Jim Bishop, 58, had chosen that period to poke around the White House gathering material for another of his Day books-this one A Day in the Life of President Johnson. The President put in a beautiful day. "He's a heckuva man," marveled Bishop. And, more to the point, "a heckuva producer...
...jailers in the big prison at Vincennes called him Monsieur le 6. The name of the arrogant prisoner in the tower had not yet become an eponym for conscienceless cruelty, but there was something about him that the warders did not like, and they preferred to poke his dinner to him through a trapdoor in the floor...
...Harvard goals 90 seconds apart put the home team in the hole. Ben Smith scored the first one on a breakaway, whipping a hard forehand into the upper right corner after a perfect feed from Kent Parrot. Lightning struck again at 7:51 in the form of Garrity's poke from the edge of the crease following a rebound off Bob Fredo's low drive...
...Shoes. Beyond the salespeople, many stores are using new methods to woo the customer. During the Christmas rush, Bullock's of Los Angeles invites customers to pick up one of two lapel buttons as they enter: a "Browse 'n' poke" one that will warn salespeople away or a "Find 'n' flee" one that will get its bearer immediate service. To get maximum effect from a sale, Detroit's Martin Alpert & Son jewelry store instituted midnight to 3 a.m. hours to accommodate night-shift workers. For favored customers, I. Magnin of San Francisco will dispatch...
...Simon was interested. Last summer Los Angeles County Museum Director Richard F. Brown, who has counseled Simon in many of his purchases, went to Liechtenstein to examine the prince's Leonardo in the sunlight of the palace courtyard. Simon is no collector to buy a pig in a poke. Before bidding $2,234,400 for Rembrandt's Titus last March, he had the painting gone over by experts; in fact, earlier, when Titus was still privately owned, he refused to buy it because his advisers were not permitted to examine it thoroughly...