Word: balderdash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Golly, Michael, I can tell you every darned thing you want to know. That Bush is pure balderdash. We can lick him up like a tadpole out of the water. Hey, and let's not forget about doing it for the other fella...
...hide behind the defense that this was the best you could unearth. And if you, yourself, are convinced that this was the best undergraduate speech you had to pick, I can only hope that you would retire from this responsibility in favor of someone who can distinguish brilliance from balderdash...
...Reagan Administration vigorously denied that it had played any part in the coup. A U.S. State Department official, responding to the charge that the U.S. and Enrile had plotted to overthrow Marcos, unleashed a single expletive that he later softened to "Balderdash...
...Lady: Well, I don't know how much of a future there is going to be, what with you boys' balderdash on disarmament and all, but sure, I'd love to help you young folks out. Order me a double vodka martini...
...Republican to a Democrat, who happened to have two relatives in the teachers' union. Small town politics set in. One week a disclaimer began appearing over Elliott's byline: "The opinions expressed in this column are not those of the editor." Gradually, the space allotted for "Verities and Balderdash" shrank, until finally, the editor cut it to 10 column inches. "That same week there was a 25-inch article on how to choose a toothbrush," he recalls, shaking his head in amusement. "I decided, 'Okay, fine, forget it," and he quit journalism...