Word: poking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foot soldier had to contend with nothing worse than mud, hardtack and the enemy's shot & shell. The war correspondent had to face all these things plus the wrath and distrust of such generals as William Tecumseh Sherman: "Dirty newspaper scribblers." Sherman called them. "They come into camp, poke about among the lazy shirks and pick up their camp rumors and publish them as facts ... I will treat them as spies, which in truth they...
Psychological Warfare. When Jenny first opened in Midsummer during its out-of-town run four months ago, everyone thought she was awfully cute, darling. The air grew chillier when Jenny took a poke at Barry Blake, another child actor in the play. Then the grownup actors-who can be just as sensitive in these matters as children-took offense when Jenny started stealing scenes from them, by mugging or winking at the audience. Backstage, Jenny thumbed her nose at Actress Vicki Cummings' maid, and, it was charged, even mother Hecht insulted Hollywood Actor Mark Stevens (playing Jenny...
From the first, Taylor wouldn't take much argument from his 650-man staff, and still doesn't. "You might as well poke a bear with a sore tooth," says one curator. From the time he walked into the museum at 9:15 a.m. until he went home at 7 p.m.. he kept an eye on everything that went on, often roaming the galleries to see what the public was looking at. He still adheres to that daily schedule...
...After the Nixon-Checkers soap opera, don't you dare poke fun at Barbara Payton again...
...latest edition of the "Green Book," Washington's social register, came off the presses with some notable omissions from the listing: former Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, former Assistant Attorney General T. Lamar Caudle, and Lobbyist Charles Patrick Clark, whose crime was taking a poke in public at Columnist Drew Pearson...