Word: pokes
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...Gazza is a man who likes to talk, poke you in the ribs after a witty aside and repeat the joke in case you didn't get it the first?or second or third?time. But here, the garrulous footballer has been reduced to pantomime gestures and one-word exchanges. "Okay," says one teammate, clapping Gazza on the back as he watches the foreigner try to capture a particularly slippery dumpling. "Okay," responds Gascoigne, dramatically spearing the morsel with his chopstick. "Okay!" cheers the teammate. It's one of the longest conversations Gascoigne has had with a teammate...
...poke at the imitation meat with suspicion, unable to identify it by texture or taste. The menu had also proclaimed something called “vegetarian ham” and “vegetarian scallop.” Tony dismisses my apprehensions. “Here we cook the way Buddhists from Taiwan’s Fo Guang Shan sect cook,” he says. “The food is purely vegetarian. No dairy products, garlic or onions are used.” The omission of garlic and onions, a custom also practiced in strict vegetarian Hindu households...
...When you poke under Europe's high-minded objections, you discover a lot of hostility toward Bush personally, whom a U.S. diplomat ruefully calls the "toxic Texan." His rhetoric plays better in Crawford than in Calais. Across the Atlantic, his style grates: Europeans are offended by his swagger, tough talk and invocations of God and evil. "People in Germany feel threatened by such wording," says Ludger Volmer, foreign affairs spokesman for the Green Party, and they dislike identifying an enemy with evil, oneself with good. "Politicians here," says Gerald Duchaussoy, 27, a Paris office worker, "don't speak with...
...Baghdad made it clear they intended to go anywhere they wanted in the renewed hunt for weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein may possess. After a few minutes' hesitation by startled palace guards, the 23 U.N. and International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors were welcomed in--to enter rooms, poke in closets, even inspect a store of marmalade. Iraq was making it just as clear that the regime intended to make a show of its cooperation with the onerous terms of Security Council Resolution 1441. The inspection was largely symbolic for both sides: presidential palaces had been effectively off-limits...
...Evil to-do list. The optimal moment to launch an attack is in February or March next year, which requires the Administration to make its case for war in the next four to six weeks - without much help from Saddam, who appears inclined to allow the UN inspectors to poke around under his bed in order to keep the U.S. war machine at bay. And that leaves precious little time for Washington to address other international crises...