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Word: poking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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With just one minute and four seconds remaining, Brown forward James Duval fought off the poke-check of sophomore goaltender Oliver Jonas to send the game into an inconclusive overtime for a 4-4 tie at Meehan Auditorium. Harvard captured its first divisional point of the season, but still remained without an ECAC victory...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Storm Back, Tie Brown | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...Running Man, Ventura's Captain Freedom is an gladiator-turned TV commentator (in a deft poke at today's NFL jocks-in-the booth culture) who hunts, and then grudgingly respects, Ah-nold. In Predator (1987), he's a gruff special-forces type who hunts a alien in the jungle, and grudgingly respects his commander, Ah-nold. And

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pinning Minnesota | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...usually are, but on top of these behemoths they become pilots of destruction. I glance behind me in apprehension, and find a bike-riding Harvardian screaming down the narrow Yard paths, no doubt late for his or her "Sex" section. They are willing to crush whatever measly pedestrian dares poke along their path...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: The Biking Menace | 10/29/1998 | See Source »

...good way to poke fun at the fact that we don't have much dating here," Raymond D. "Lano" Williams '00, president of Winthrop's House Committee, says...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Make Love Connections | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...impression that the American people treat constitutional matters as more sacred than the leaders to whom they are entrusted, and the debate on Thursday sealed it. The mood was grim and rash and deeply bitter. When House minority leader Richard Gephardt mentioned on the floor the Republican lust to poke their investigative Q-Tips into the cracks of everything from campaign finance to Travelgate to the FBI files, many Republicans forgot their instructions to be dignified and cheered, yelped "Yes!" and applauded. And when Gephardt later said, in true sorrow, that "our problem is we don't trust one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down In History | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

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