Word: balderdash
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...depressions with a "d," a horrible civil war, we had very few human rights, we had no rule of law, we had regular massacres in the street. China will certainly have setbacks along the way. A lot of people think China can't have a recession. That's balderdash. China can have a recession like everybody else. Is it the end of the story? No. If it happens, you buy yourself some more China...
...Cabot Lodge, noted isolationist and member of the Class of 1871, would not be thrilled. “Harvard students are learning about foreigners?” he would yell, waving his cane, pocketwatch flailing about. “At America’s premier institution of higher learning? Balderdash!” Lodge would then lurch off, muttering under his breath.Luckily, Harvard’s isolationism has dissipated since those quaint pre-World War II days–as of a couple years ago, they even started encouraging us to study abroad! As part of your newly internationalized curriculum...
...university team from your state that you supported. Maybe it was State, maybe it was U; maybe your grandparents went there, maybe your parents work there. Regardless, you followed your college team through thick and thin, from bowl games to recruiting violations and from gambling scandals to BCS balderdash...
...mail response to Alimov’s message, Rogers called Alimov a “chauvinistic know nothing” and characterized the student’s arguments as “ludicrous canards” and “balderdash.” A second e-mail from Alimov received no response, but by that time the original e-mail exchange had been widely forwarded to an unknown number of recipients in the finance and investment world...
...extend or utopia to establish,” and five months later he told a group of veterans at the White House that “[w]e have no territorial ambitions. We don’t seek an empire.” Such protestations, Ferguson says, are balderdash...