Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From all of this, Ford emerges as a descent and likeable fellow, if for not other reason than that he allowed a perceptive novelist to poke around his office for a week. What Ford has over his recent predecessors is an air of confidence and "serenity." He tells Hersey that he hates "petty jealousies" among his staff worst of all, while Nixon seemed to thrive on them, and his tolerance for criticism stands cut in contrast to Johnson's vindictiveness...
...applicant's regional group. The committee may spend any where from a few seconds on a case with a 'six' profile to an hour and forty-five minutes on a toughone Occassionally, Reardon said, tempers get out of hand in the committee. "I've seen one person take a poke at another person. It doesn't happen very often...When you're dealing with that kind of stress over a number of days, there are some disagreements that get sort of personalized...
...very long. Even on the first B.U. power play at 1:38. Leigh Hogan was banished to the box for charging Penalty-killer Kevin art book the puck in alone on tournament Brian Durocher, but couldn't finish the play as the Terrier's freshman goaltender was there to poke the puck off Carr's stick. It was an omen of things to come as Durocher repeatedly foiled what scoring bids the Crimson offense could generate...
...Rooney Goes to Washington, Veteran TV Writer-Producer Andrew A. Rooney is allowed to poke into agency offices, asking impertinent questions and sizing up the federal establishment. The winner of an Emmy and other awards, Rooney has written TV essays on such subjects as doors, chairs and bridges. His beat is not politics, and at first his meanderings through the capital seem almost pointless. Yet he is a master at extricating the revealing from the commonplace, and he soon accumulates enough eccentric encounters to indicate that Franz Kafka would feel at home in Washington today...
Sargent's most important tactic has been to label Dukakis young, inexperienced and rash. Speaking as the "voice of experience," Sargent has been able to poke holes in Dukakis proposals, causing the Democrat to waffle on the issues...