Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a Sarah Mleczko shot that rebounded back into the circle, defensive back Stefi Baum picked up the ball and drove it back toward the nets as York came around the goal to poke the ball through for the score...
Canal Zone is three hours long and somewhat repetitive, but its temperature rises steadily as it proceeds. At first it seems that Wiseman has made this film only to poke obvious fun at colonialism: he includes some all too pointed shots of the downtrodden Panamanians who perform the Americans' menial labor. By the time Canal Zone reaches its Memorial Day climax, however, it becomes as bitter as Sinclair Lewis' Main Street...
...minutes into the half. York came back for more, this time taking the relay from Stone in for a short poke that found the Jumbo...
...from two such dissimilar cultures. Nevertheless it is interesting to consider the means by which an Eskimo and a Russian who emigrated to Paris in 1910 both manage to evoke the spirit of their milieus. The Arctic sculptures convey much of the vastness and harshness of life near the Poke and were carved almost instinctively. Chagall has depicted busy, crowded, complex European scenes and yet his inspiration seems likewise instinctual. Both collections illustrate folk traditions stretching back beyond memories. The difference lies in the ancestral memories and not in the faithfulness of interpretation...
...meet you," the CPUSA would say "The correctness of that policy will be tested in the crucible of struggle" instead of "time will tell whether that plan was O.K. She is loyal to the party's goals, and believes in its integrity, out she misses few chances to poke a little fun. This is for her "the fine old conflict"; she has none of the uncompromising, unhumorous rigidity which most of us have come to associate with the C.P. line...