Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Democrats are hoping the special counsel that the ethics committee plans to hire will poke around in the Gingrich money machine until the investigator hits something foul. If the ethics committee balks at any request by the counsel to expand the probe, the Democrats can be counted on to recall the words of a celebrated House firebrand. To place limits on the work of the special counsel, he declared, would be seen as "an attempt by the ethics committee to control the scope and direction of the investigation.'' Who said that? Gingrich did, seven years ago, when he was pushing...
...plays that were chosen pose a great opportunity to poke fun at Harvard life," Benjamin added. "It's a really great idea, and it could be a big success...
Except for gravy and pie crust, which take patience and practice, Thanksgiving dinner is as easy to make as it is to eat. You're a right-handed batter in a park that's 150 feet down the left-field line--it doesn't take a genius to poke...
McMurtry has a fine time with youthful damnfoolishness, and so does the reader. The young Rangers are randy and daft, and so coltish around women that, as in Lonesome Dove, they refer to sexual congress as a "poke." Call and McCrae survive by dumb luck, though it's not clear by adventure's end that either has learned a dime's worth of sense. In fact, they are still...
...movies than early-summer weekends, most films--even the hits--will be seven-day wonders. So it has been, with few exceptions, this season. Crimson Tide gives way to Die Hard with a Vengeance is vaporized by Casper gets eaten by Congo is beaten by Batman Forever gets a poke in the eye from Pocahontas. Hey, it's a jungle out there. One weekend you're the lion king; the next, you're vulture chow...