Word: pokes
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...There U. S. artists and musicians have studied under first-rate Frenchmen each summer since; in off hours could relax in the Forest of Fontainebleau's shady green aisles, feed ring-snouted carp in the pond by the palace, down drinks and French pastry at sidewalk cafes and poke mild fun at Rosa Bonheur's bull on its pedestal in the village square...
...earned some $5,000,000 in the ring, had started a pugilistic "comeback" at 45. In Atlanta, during two rounds of roughhouse scrapping that left him wobbly-kneed, he had knocked out of the ring one Cowboy Luttrell, a fat, 34-year-old wrestler who had taken a poke at him during a wrestling match which he refereed last spring...
...wings, but its big wallop is packed under the fuselage: a 1,100-lb. or 550-lb. bomb on a rack that can be extended as the dive is begun. Reason for extension: bombs released in a dive pick up speed faster than the ship, have been known to poke their noses into the whirling prop and blow dive bomber and crew to bits. The extension guides the bomb out of the propeller...
...respect of lawyers and colleagues alike. There he was doing his quiet job, when the noses of the circuit court sniffed a decidedly gamy smell curling up from Detroit and suburban Hamtramck. The police blandly assured them that everything was O.K., but the circuit court decided to poke around, appointed Judge Ferguson (under a peculiar Michigan law) to sit as a one-man grand jury and find out what was making the stink...
Refereeing a wrestling match in Atlanta, Jack Dempsey several times warned Wrestler Cowboy Lutrell against rough tactics, finally awarded the match to his opponent on a foul. Indignant Lutrell took a poke at Dempsey, and Prize Fighter Dempsey, long out of training, went into action, nailed him with a hard punch, drove him to the ropes...