Word: poking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that TV can expose new channels of experience, there is still the lingering fear that some day Video Boy is going to tie a towel around his neck and try to fly off the garage roof like Bat Fink; or, if somebody crosses him in the playground, he may poke his fingers in his eyes in the style of the Three Stooges. But mostly, with misty recollections of taffy pulls and swimming holes, parents are bothered by a vague feeling that, somehow, as one mother puts it, "life should be lived, not watched...
Something seemed to be getting too hot for comfort in the town government of Islip, N.Y.; inside of a year, 14 high-ranking officials quietly resigned. So Newsday, the Long Island daily, started to poke into the matter. The more it poked, the more it found. After three months' digging, the paper finally unearthed the kind of conflict-of-interest scandal that every editor dreams...
...discrimination in New York, where Negroes represent 18.2% of the population but only hold 6.3% of white-collar jobs and are a meager 1.8% of the "managerial class." Even those in managerial jobs in most areas are usually lower-level executives. "If I let big business here poke me in the eye once for every Negro vice president it has," says a Los Angeles civil rights worker, "I'd never have to blink...
...fair. We do see some very tasteful advertising as well as the other kind. Consider the Volkswagen campaign as an example. No cheesecake. The vehicle is sold on its merits. Frequently the ads actually poke fun at the product. But sales are still climbing...
...They do nothing else unless, as often happens, a Viet Cong among the villagers foolishly tries to escape the net. Next, in flutters a giant Chinook helicopter carrying a contingent of Vietnamese National Police armed with burp guns and long metal rods. The policemen question and search the villagers, poke the ground with their rods in search of holes hiding Viet Cong or arms. They usually flush out both, and load them into the Chinook. With that, the police and the Cavalrymen withdraw. Usually within two hours the village is alone and tranquil again-minus its Viet Cong...