Word: hogwash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...library in the U.S. is without his books, which are used mainly to help beginning readers get a kick out of reading. Geisel once based his book texts-as most publishers of reading primers still do-on standardized basic word lists. But he now considers such lists so much hogwash, because today's television-viewing children have an expanded vocabulary, uses any word "that has to do with a child's life and hopes...
Publisher Dale claimed that he could not understand what all the fuss was about. "It's a bunch of hogwash," he said in a TV interview. "I don't think our reporters are second-class citizens. They can get appointments just like anybody else." And his paper devoted considerable space to explaining that all was shipshape at probate. "It is common knowledge," wrote Enquirer Reporter Caden Blincoe, "that the awarding of appraiserships is a way of returning favors-a form of dispensing political patronage. Patronage is not a dirty word in American politics." Or in the city room...
...income," insisted the bride-to-be. "He wouldn't think of it any other way." And another thing, Luci Baines Johnson, 18, pointed out in an interview with McCall's, those reports that she had to strong-arm Daddy into approving the match were just "hogwash." When she brought her beau, Pat Nugent, whose career plans are still up in the air, down to the ranch last October, the girl explained, "my father came to us and asked: 'What's all this I read in the newspapers?' " And that, said Luci, sticking...
...People think of surgery," writes the author, "as a grim, tense business with the surgeon snapping 'Scalpel!' and 'Clamp!' and everything going along in dramatic silence except for the click, click of instruments. This is just a lot of hogwash. About half the time the surgeon is telling dirty jokes with the fixed intent of embarrassing the scrub nurse. The rest of the time there is bickering, or gossip, or talk about how things were last winter in Palm Springs, or how many suction cups on a squid's tentacles, or whether a woman...
Ignoring that evidence, the motel's Owner-Lawyer Moreton Rolleston Jr. proceeded to lecture the Justices: "The argument that this law was passed to relieve a burden on interstate commerce is so much hogwash. It was intended to regulate the acts of individuals." If the commerce clause can be stretched that far, declared Rolleston, "Congress can regulate every facet of life...