Word: hogwash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...senior members of the committee, which heard testimony on the bills at a public session Wednesday, pointed out that similar measures had failed of passage in past years, and said he saw little difference between this year's versions and previous ones. "Personally, I think they're so much hogwash," he said, but still held out slight chance for passage, saying, "but we do some awfully stupid things in this legislature...
...Talbert's charges were "ridiculous. Said Stackhouse: He "grudgingly admired" the Times for prying the story out of the Pentagon while the opposition was sitting on its hands. Since the Communists already knew about the Sabre jets from dogfighting with them, he said, "whole security thing so much hogwash...
...most reason for satisfaction was Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who long fought the pressure of Navy brass and the skepticism of many scientists about the practicality of nuclear power. (As late as 1949, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer said, "Nuclear power for planes and battleships is so much hogwash.") In last week's test runs, the Nautilus behaved as well as Rickover and his associates hoped it would. Afterwards an officer confidently reported: "Hell, we could have gone to Europe and back without coming up." The Nautilus is powered by steam turbines. The heat comes from a nuclear reactor...
...stand, slight, white-haired Fleming made it plain he considered the recordings "just a bunch of hogwash," but had "cooperated" in return for Red favors-"dog meat for a meal or a couple of sulfa pills." He had told his fellow prisoners: "I cannot tell you to resist; it's up to you. Let your conscience be your guide." Personally, he said, he cared only about survival for his men and himself. "I decided," said Colonel Fleming, "that the most futile thing in the world was a dead prisoner...
...plan to which the HUERA and the University have agreed seems a fair one, Rumors of mass, indiscriminate firings are just so much hogwash. Of the two hundred or so maids now in the Houses, only about fifty will be laid off. Chosen because of their lack of seniority, most of this group were hired only last fall. And because they will be forced to leave their old jobs, the University has offered them preference should they want to apply for work in the College dining halls. Outside of this group, there will be no layoffs. About fifty maids usually...