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...Lord of the Rings is often pokey and perfervid. But it provides a kind of joy, and will do so as long as men read and Hobbits live in holes...
...fire-breathing Jomo Kenyatta, a smug Queen Victoria or a lurching Foreign Secretary George Brown, sputtering: "I'm having to solve the Viet Nam war, and you don't see pictures of me doing that, do you? No! You see pictures of me doing the hokey-pokey!" In a recent takeoff on BBC documentaries, he played a mustachioed producer, a brandy-guzzling announcer, an unemployed lathe operator-and the entire British Cabinet. In last week's skit, Bird was a lisping Field Marshal Montgomery who passes up a "Violence for Peace" demonstration to go to Viet...
From the photo, it looked as if the Archbishop of Canterbury, 62, were being hustled off to the pokey-and in Las Vegas yet. Well, not quite. The Most Reverend and Right Honorable Arthur Michael Ramsey, stopping off for a day en route to an Episcopal conference in Seattle, was merely getting a V.I.P.'s reception, Nevada-style. His Grace drew a crowd of 8,000 businessmen, politicians and highrollers to the Convention Center for a talk on Christian unity. Las Vegas responded with a luncheon for 600, at which the Archbishop was observed guffawing at Comedian Danny Thomas...
...upset, there was the 200-meter freestyle victory of Florida's Pam Kruse, 17, who clocked a world-record 2 min. 9.7 sec.-while the old recordholder, California's Pokey Watson, straggled in fifth. For beauty, there was Florida's lissome, blonde Catie Ball, 15, who set world marks in both the 100meter and 200-meter breaststroke. And for versatility, there was California's tousle-haired Claudia Kolb, 17, who 1) won the 400-meter individual medley in world-record time, 2) set a second record in the 200-meter medley, 3) swam the breaststroke...
...University of California. Savio earned himself a 120-day jail sentence from the Berkeley court for trespassing, resisting arrest and refusal to disperse, fought the rap unsuccessfully for two years through higher courts (the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review it), and last week marched off to the pokey after taking a bite of his farewell gift from friends: a chocolate cake with a hacksaw stuck in the middle...