Word: poking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Andreas was even talked about as a successor to his father, 76. Opposition conservatives and his father's own center supporters finally decided to give Andreas his comeuppance -and, indirectly, take a poke at the Premier too. George, wrote one newspaper, "must sacrifice his son." They planted stories alleging that Andreas had a "Trotskyite" past and at the same time accused him of being more American than Greek. Then they made the relatively minor but damaging charge that Andreas had let a $60,000 town-planning contract without competitive bids to a friend. While stoutly denying the accusation, Andreas...
...Philadelphia Bulletin detected a new earnestness of rhetoric in the campaigns last week: "Until Election Day, Voltaire's famous remark is amended to read, T will defend to the death your right to say what you have just said, but if you say it again, I'll poke you one in the kisser...
Though Buddhists regard it with fascination, obstetricians with respect, and belly-dancers as a way of life, no one not interested in finding the middle of his abdomen has ever paid much attention to the human navel. It is neither a beautiful object nor a particularly useful one; children poke fun at it, and even analysts smile...
...times, there is a dearth of mirth. Takeoffs on murder mystery and trouble-in-paradise movies poke along rather predictably; the idea of Antony delivering Caesar's funeral oration while struggling frantically to hold onto the unwieldy corpse is funnier in promise than performance. On the other hand, when the cast dons wigs and choirboys' surplices for a spastic rock-'n'-roll number called "I Wanna Hold Your Handel," they memorably spoof both the composer and the Beatles, with a blasting hallelujah! yeah! yeah! The evening ends in a British courtroom with a bewigged theater...
Another serious condition that can be mistaken for simple heartburn is a hiatus hernia-a defect in the diaphragm where the gullet (esophagus) passes through, just above the stomach. This permits part of the stomach to poke upward into the chest cavity and spill digestive juices into the gullet. Pope Pius XII suffered from a hiatus hernia for a long time before it was correctly diagnosed and treated, and the condition is by no means rare...