Word: phooey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laurent when, in French-speaking Montreal, he got the best reception of his campaign. When St. Laurent visited Toronto, the Tely's front page carried not a word of his speech. Instead, it ran an interview with a St. Laurent heckler and a picture of him shouting "Phooey...
...sign he was there! The most real things in the world are those a child never sees but is told about by the Central Committee . . . Ah, Virginia, in all the world there is nothing real or abiding unless you get it officially from the Kremlin. Santa Claus! Phooey! Thank Karl Marx, thank Lenin, thank Stalin, thank Vishinsky, thank Molotov, thank Gromyko, he was eliminated years ago forever...
...Phooey! I can beat his golf score...
...Dewey? Phooey...
...sampling of your remarks appears in this issue's Letters section, and a further refinement of them varies from outright detractors ("Phooey on New York!") to those who composed toasts to the city they admire. The State Department's Voice Of America has asked permission to use the story in a broadcast to overseas listeners. Park Commissioner Robert Moses, who has his own special view of the city, paused in his labors long enough to declare that the TIME story did not express the community spirit of New York sufficiently. A surprising number of TIME-reading residents, however...