Word: poking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official said when a Harvard player complained of a poke in the head, "You Harvard boys are dishing it out too." And so they were, in large, undigestable lumps...
...Lord ever calls me, I'm not going," pipes the twelve-year-old son of an Ohio minister. He hates being a preacher's son because the other kids poke fun at him. But the boy is Norman Vincent Peale, who grows up to become a churchman and bestselling author (The Power of Positive Thinking) so famous that he gets the honor of seeing his biography filmed during his lifetime...
What makes a healthy, unblemished girl decide to poke holes through her ears? The reasons are numerous. At first, it was a challenge and a sign of being off-beat. The girl who had pierced ears belonged to an elite group, whose members, rejoicing in their radicalness, felt a certain kinship to other piercees. The bond resembled that among owners of Jaguar sportscars, who honk loudly whenever they pass a confrere on the road. Also, ear piercing was a method of rebellion against parental authority. Mother, who had worn screw-on button earrings all her life, was horrified...
...cannot get into the target room, he will usually work from an adjacent room or corridor, where he may be able to slip a bug into an electrical outlet or heating duct, which are often back-to-back. Otherwise, he may drill a small hole through the wall and poke a thin plastic tube into it, just short of the far surface, so as to siphon sound waves into a microphone next door...
Harvard's best period was the first, when it outshot the Golden Knights fourteen to seven. Only some fine saves by Clarkson goalie Bob Birrell and timely poke-checking by the Knight defense kept the period scoreless. Sweitzer was hardly tested in the Harvard nets...