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Word: pokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outdoor-clothing and -gear company based in Ventura, Calif., that seems more interested in protecting the environment than its profits, is about to teach me fly-fishing. Ahead of us, the quicksilver water burbles and shushes. Across the river, the cold mountains, patched with snowfields and dark bruises, poke into a hot, dry sky more white than blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YVON CHOUINARD: Reaching the Top by Doing the Right Thing | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...Cornell's Adam Skumawitz managed to poke the ball past Mejias on a breakaway, and at 74:35, Cornell's Lewis Vaughn, sliding to his left, struck the ball off the right post and into the Harvard goal...

Author: By Colin S. Donnelly, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cornell Chews Up M. Soccer, 3-1 | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

...Faculty and tacitly admits that they're usually maligned by the campus press. It might be expected that a group burdened by such bias would fight for redress and vie for special privilege. Some people do expect that, and they perceive a grab for personal accommodation when conservatives poke fun at the institution of victimhood or satirize Harvard's inequitable (on the low side) distribution of minority privilege to the conservative minority here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 9/29/1999 | See Source »

Naturally, Perlman has his rationalist assumptions upended. Hansen's serio-comic hero is another good poke at the preening self-confidence of science, in this case the budding efforts at the turn of the century to systematize the study of the mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Girl from Atlantis | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...help for the steel, oil and mining industries, among others. Not any more. "We really don't have time" to consider the Yugoslavia spending legislation separately, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said Tuesday. So by the end of next week, Clinton should get that $13 billion poke in the eye -- and Central Americans should get the help they need. Only six months late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the War in Kosovo Helped Central America | 5/5/1999 | See Source »

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