Word: foofaraw
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...doing. He could not do this through the usual medical channels because the job was far from finished and, anyway, medical journals would have rejected reports on a "secret remedy." Dr. Ivy took his dilemma by the horns, told a press conference about Krebiozen, and started a first-class foofaraw (TIME, April...
Down in High Shoals, Ga. (pop. 217), a 26-year-old housewife named Mrs. Irvin H. McGuire had paid no attention whatever to all this foofaraw. She did not even see the General Mills ad until June 18, the closing day of the contest. Just for fun, she tore out the blank, dashed off the required completion to the sentence "I like Wheaties because . . ." She forgot all about it (including what she wrote) until a General Mills man knocked at the door. His very name, Golden Aurelius Pirkle, bespoke good fortune. Said he: "You have...
...false hope could be laid to the showmanship which marked the first news. Patients who had been crippled were photographed dancing a jig after a few shots of either hormone. But the research team headed by Drs. Philip S. Hench and Edward C. Kendall which touched off the foofaraw ends a solemn, 120-page report in the Archives of Internal Medicine with these sobering words...
...first time, one of the candidates had already had three terms and wanted a fourth. Item: the P.A.C., the group making the biggest organized effort to elect the Democratic candidate, did not even belong to the Democratic Party. Item: the G.O.P. candidate not only didn't encourage foofaraw, bands, parades and demonstrations, but deliberately discouraged it. Item: one of the main campaign speeches was mainly remembered as being about the candidate...
...something which had been carefully soft-pedaled before the newsmen. Come V-E day, the hyper-competitive automen will clear their plants of Government-owned equipment and materials in their own way, argue with the Government later on how it should have been done. Thus the two days of foofaraw simply boiled down to the fact that the automen sensibly wanted to scrap now the tangle of red tape which may hold up reconversion. But they have no intention of letting it stand in the way of 1) making jobs; 2) producing cars. As Rausch summed up: "When we start...