Word: phooey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox, 52, is a man of few words, his favorite one normally being the all-purpose expletive "Phooey!" On occasion, Maddox applies it personally to irksome political critics and statehouse correspondents ("Phooey on you, phooey on you, and phooey on you!"). Last week Atlanta Attorney James H. Moore and a band of reporters hatched up their revenge with something called a "Phooey-gram," a telegram sent directly to Maddox bearing nothing save the sender's name and one word-"Phooey." Already hundreds of Phooey-grams have been wired to the capitol, and Moore plans...
...Repent for not supporting the 1964 G.O.P. nomination? Phooey! If Romney and Rockefeller refuse to repent for following their consciences [Dec. 2], congratulations! I shall never understand why political parties expect their members to follow like blind sheep...
...Shea Stadium to watch the New York Mets take on the Los Angeles Dodgers and Pitcher Don Drysdale, whose lifetime record against the Mets was 13-1. By the end of the first inning, the Dodgers were ahead 2-0, and the grandstand blossomed with derogatory signs. PHOOEY! said one. Said another...
...Achhh. I've known Izzy for 30 years," a disenchanted fellow-traveler whispered to me while Stone was talking in Kirkland House, "The guy follows Moscow's party line right down to the commas." Phooey. Stone has as much disdain for Communists as he has for Democrats or Republicans. He's about as eager as a local ladies auxiliary for the violent overthrow of the government...
...most art experts, her Italian contemporaries pale beside her earlier purchases. Peggy does not agree. "People in 20 years will be saying the same things about the new people as they were about Pollock back then," she says. Pop? "This whaddayacallit, phooey," she says, but Jasper Johns...