Word: guff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such rhapsodizing is pure, pretentious guff to most of the psychiatrists and psychologists who have worked with LSD, psilocybin and mescaline; they consider it the kind of happy talk that exerts a strong appeal on just the sort of unstable people most likely to be injured by the drugs. Under the influence of LSD, nonswimmers think they can swim, and others think they can fly. One young man tried to stop a car on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard and was hit and killed. A magazine salesman became convinced that he was the Messiah. A college dropout committed suicide...
...characteristically canny decision on Lyndon Johnson's part not only to decree the new post of Special Presidential Assistant on Consumer Affairs in January 1964 but also to appoint a woman as the first holder of that office. Her name is Mrs. Esther Peterson, and if gimmickry, guff and guile are ever banished from the Eldorado that U.S. industry has created for the shopper, Esther may well go down in history as St. Peterson...
...Huey Long man, was named U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana by Frank lin Roosevelt in 1942, and was appointed to his present judicial post by Harry Truman in 1947. He is a tough old bird, and he has not been notable for taking any guff from anyone...
...Franklin's successful pursuit of French funds and official recognition to a species of boudoir statesmanship. Despite his celebrated gynecophilia, rare Ben is, after all, 70 years old in 1776, and his torpid romancing of Louis XVI's mistress (Ulla Sallert) has to consist mostly of gallant guff and one balloon ascension...
...real Barry's boys are obviously taking a lot of guff from all over, but at least they have not lost their own sense of humor. At Goldwater's national headquarters in Washington, the faithful are cheerfully prepared to supply on request any and all good jokes they have heard about their man. For example, they offer this one about the moment when Barry gets sworn in as President. "Repeat after me," says Chief Justice Warren: "I swear to protect this nation against its enemies, foreign and domestic, so help...