Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MacDonald again proved gracious with a minute left in the game, when he slid a pretty pass to Young 20 feet from the RPI net. All Young had to do was poke a shot past Duncan for his hat trick...
...disco songs for Casey Kasem to spend four hours counting down "the top disco hits of all time." The highlight of the chart-smashing list was the 24th biggest disco hit of all time, "Disco Duck." Casey proclaimed disco here to stay precisely because it was mature enough to poke fun at itself...
...possible explanation for the "decline" is the high number of goals the team has been allowing. The Crimson gave up five goals in both the Yale and Northeastern contests, and then allowed BC to poke home seven shots on Monday...
...only the myths that endure: often, traces of childhood still lurk beneath the tough hide of adults. This holds true, we found last week, even when those grownups work for TIME. Editors, writers and reporter-researchers often found it necessary to interrupt their tasks to poke through the mountain of dolls, blocks and robots that was amassed for the story in an empty office on our 26th floor...
...shoulder of a great master at work." Thomas Hoving, editor in chief of Connoisseur magazine and the leading impresario of fine-art hyperbole, proclaims that the group is "unique in art history -- to suddenly have before you this monumental body of great American painting. It's a mighty poke, a sharp stick between the eyes of those who dismiss Wyeth as nostalgic. It's his weapon, his dissent. He's shouting, 'No one will ever write me out of history...