Word: pokes
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...Daily Free-Lance, was knocked down by an irate subscriber who objected to a Free-Lance story on the arrest of his 23-year-old daughter for speeding. Publisher Gourley's good-natured editorial comment: "Who wants to interfere with an American's right to take a poke at the editor...
...Funsters, heavy underdogs, surprised the Bunnies, scoring on their first attempt, on a crease shot by Mitch Rosenholtz. Jim Philips then tied it up for Leverett with a close-in poke...
Pits & Pie. Pogo, which frequently takes a poke at U.S. manners & morals, usually sticks to such personal problems as Porky's courting of Mam'selle Hepzibah, a skunk with a French accent. To help Porky, Albert and Churchy offer their services as serenaders, sing in typical Pogo style: "Oh, pick a pock of peach pits, pockets full of pie, foreign twenty blackboards baked until they...
Though Republicans still called the measure "a pig in a poke" and "as imperfect as a bill can possibly be," the turn of events in Korea had improved its chances of passing. The House was almost sure to approve. Even the Senate, which has been dead set against an excess-profits tax in this session, might put a tax of some sort through by Christmas...
...Speaking about your newspapers, I did not know what I was in for when I began buying your comics for my children. At all times of the day my five-year-old son will poke one of them in my face and ask me to explain it to him ... It seems crazy from the beginning. How am I to explain this mad whirlwind of animals rushing about in cars, getting entangled in telephone wires, or being blown to bits by explosives...