Word: pokes
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...lover in just her jewels and fur - who knew she took fashion cues from the Velvet Underground?) The royals can't say they weren't warned. Walter Bagehot, the great 19th century hack, once said: "Above all things our royalty is to be reverenced, and if you begin to poke about it you cannot reverence it ... Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic." But it is not for the crime of ignoring such advice that the Palace and its advisers stand indicted; it is because they have so fundamentally misunderstood the nature of modern...
...sucking the marrow out of life,” these days the bone comes sliced in half and the marrow oozes off with a nudge from the knife point. “I don’t know what that means about life, that you only need to poke it with a knife,” Beuscher muses. Nothing was revealed on this point, but the skirt steak itself was a revelation in rich flavor, cooked perfectly and consistently pink...
Three National Guard soldiers open LIVE TO DRIVE's trailer and poke about his cargo as a customs inspector, his navy shirt defiantly crisp in the pounding heat, peers at the paperwork and peppers the man with questions. The driver answers stoically, in halting English. Scrap aluminum. Picked it up in Quebec, due at a recycler in Missouri. Heading down I-75, hoping to get there tonight. The inspector appraises the man's story and body language and waves him on for final processing...
...class time learning. But in my literature sections at Summerbridge, I see the girls trying to learn, ready with their paper and sharp pencils at the beginning of class, raising their hands with questions. The boys devilishly run away from me, insult me, jump out of their chairs, or poke each other. I can’t generalize: I know that in other classrooms at Summerbridge, not to mention in the rest of the world, girls act up and boys behave well. But I find myself expending all my energy on my male students, having time to consider my female...
...baby!" His friends are equally passionate in their anti-Reno sentiments, except possibly the one with a sign that says, "Honk if you like cookies." "I've hated her ever since the Elian case," says Moffat, who skateboarded here. "But I think it's good she can poke fun at herself. The SNL thing was hilarious." Dancing, especially really bad dancing, really does bring the world together...