Word: pokes
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...practice, a single fast airplane could lay a line of Grasshoppers all across a thinly inhabited stretch of enemy territory. They would lie dormant for a while. Then, just before an important bombing mission was due to take off, they would rise on their folding legs, poke out their antennas, and tell the oncoming bombers what kind of weather to expect over the target...
...first place? And why have they thrown such fantastic charges at him? Ambler thrusts his British journalist hero, Foster, into the thick of things to ask those questions, then leads him a chase to the answers. Foster trips over a corpse almost as soon as he begins to poke around...
...Groom Wore Spurs (Fidelity; Universal-International) tries to poke fun at a singing cowboy movie star (Jack Carson) who is a bit of a stinker, fears horses and cannot sing. Though the idea seems worth a farce, it is clumsily turned, geared to a creaky romance (involving Ginger Rogers as a lawyer) and powered by melodramatic nonsense. The joke proves to be not so much on western heroes as on Hollywood farceurs...
...reserves the right to poke, pry, carp, coo and criticize at will...
...Bruins got the jump on the Crimson, which never could got its attack clicking consistently. Cooney Weiland's sextet fought Brown on even terms after the first period, but it was too late. The Brown defense's poke-checking, and good back-checking by Bruin forwards, along with excellent play by goalie Don Whiston, told the story...