Word: poking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...submarine will be specially built with a watertight chamber to hold the great missile. It will poke to the surface an instrument to tell it exactly where it is. Then, at its leisure in darkness and silence, far below wave action, it will open its missile chamber. The missile will tilt to the vertical. When all is ready, it will rise from the sea in a flood of flame and a cloud of steam...
...reverted to staidness. The Justice was born elsewhere, coming only in his College days to visit his grandmother and uncle, of whom Emerson said something to the effect that 'John Holmes has humor, while Oliver has only wit.' Boston's poet laureate returned in 1871, literally at least, to poke around the garret and compare it to "a seashore, where wrecks are thrown up and slowly go to pieces...
Confessions of Felix Krull, by Thomas Mann, was the great writer's last book (he died at 80 before it was published), and certainly his most amusing. His picaresque hero, a life-charged confidence man, gave him a chance to poke fun at human folly, but with death so near, Mann had never shown such gusto for life...
These statements represent the culmination of a grad "Geneva spirit" just as much. Worse, in taking a poke at the Russians he has unnecessarily infuriated a nation whose friendship is crucial, thus making the Russian strategy doubly effective. It seems that Mr. Dulles has again cut off our national nose to spite our patriotic face. ual change in the policy of large labor groups. At the inception of the AFL, the organization steadfastly refused to take political action, relying mainly on building up the processes of collective bargaining. Founder Samuel Gompers warned the fledgling Federation that political action could prove...
...Only Takes Two. Sylvester seldom peddles nightclub scandal, but likes to take a good-natured poke at such cafe society figures as the interior decorator for neurotics who "specializes in furniture made of overwrought iron" and the Sultan's son who "drives a foreign elephant." He is an authority on functional (if fictitious) drinks, e.g., the Mambo cocktail ("two of these and you can't stop shaking"), the Instant cocktail ("two drinks and you have your hangover immediately") and the Do-It-Yourself cocktail ("two of them and no one can help you"). And he has, to date...