Word: phooey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heineman, chairman of the Chicago & North Western Railway, the "commuter's friend"? Phooey!! Between late trains, unheated cars and increased fares, all we need is another "friend" like Mr. Heineman and we'll have to move our offices to the suburbs...
...letters I get from home," wrote People's New York Correspondent Len Coulter, "reveal that thousands of people in Britain have swallowed the old bunk about the American Way of Life-swish homes, big cars, gleaming refrigerators, 21-inch TV sets and plenty of money in the bank. Phooey...
...enemy, Nehru's India. Last week, when a New York Times reporter made the conventional assumption, in the form of a question, that all of Asia and Africa stood behind Nasser, forthright Hussein Suhrawardy compressed his reply-and his current opinion of Egypt-into one word: "Phooey...
...AFUS! Pride and tradition are the services' lifeblood-and this would be the death blow to each. The same uniform-bah! The same promotion list-phooey! Would our intrepid young flyers ever consent to this? Would you demolish the Halls of Montezuma? Would you assassinate Benny Havens? Would you desecrate the Navy Blue and Gold? The effectiveness of any armed force lies chiefly in the morale and spirit of its components and not in a cold, efficient, economic steamroller...
...weighing in at a svelte 135 Ibs., charged that Dr. Cazzarolli had issued a false certificate, ballyhooed by the pasta firm in ads, stating that she had shed an unsvelte 44 Ibs. by gobbling quantities of Pastificio Pantanella's dietetic, "no-cal" macaroni. Maria fumed a scornful phooey on "the physiological pasta." The prima donna, who once declined singing Madame Butterfly because she scaled an unlepidopterous 212 Ibs., now complained: "The public wants Callas to be noble and delicate . . . Woe betide if, opposed to this idealistic spirituality, the public should discover a behind-scenes maneuver whereby a dainty Butterfly...