Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Harvard's offense temporarily asleep, Lau and the Crimson defense cam alive to keep the contest close, defenseman Graham Carter stopping Roberts on a 2-1 break with a nifty poke check. Lau then went to his knees to block Lawson's rebound shot just before the second period ended...
Senior fullback Denis Grosvenor should be the Quaker to watch. Averaging 4.5 yards a poke this year, Grosvenor needs just 108 yards to pass Jack Wixted as Penn's second-place career rusher...
Chris Chambliss (4-for-4, 1 RBI) lined a single to right, and Roy White followed with an identical poke. Pinch hitter "Heathcliff" Johnson grounded out to second, but Dent, the man who made thousands of Bostonians miserable on Monday, lined a single to right, collecting two of his three RBIs. When Mickey Rivers followed with yet another single, Royals manager Whitey Herzog yanked Gura in favor of 35-year-old Marty Pattin, who struggled out of the inning...
Though the film's show-biz types remain ineffectual to the end, Mikhalkov refuses to poke fun at them. More often he is touched by their plight-especially that of Olga, the movie troupe's star actress. Olga barrels through real-life matters of love, death and conscience in the same florid manner as in her on-screen roles, yet she is more tragic than foolish. As played by Yelena Solovey, an actress of impressive range, this heroine's helpless indecisiveness sometimes achieves Chekhovian dimensions...
Another irritating poke in the arm. More life story...