Word: phooey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French explorer, the Marquis de Montcalm, advised King Louis XV that a waterway linking the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers should be built to promote trade. Phooey said Louie. But the idea remained alive, and in 1870 a U.S. Government study was completed by an esteemed engineer who concluded that the project was technically feasible but asked, "From whence cometh the commerce" to justify it? More studies were done-in 1880, 1890, 1910, 1920, 1930 and 1938-but always the answer was the same: "Whence cometh...
...American living outside the U.S. I have this to say about my country's preoccupation with a presidential "personality" contest instead of issues: phooey. Has a man's "aura" ever run the country...
...provided with a car by riding his bicycle seven miles to the state capitol. And he announced some plans for augmenting his income: the manufacture of Lester Maddox wristwatches, a Maddox doll and a Lester-in-the-box that utters the guv's all-purpose expletive: "Phooey...
...exhibit of memorabilia on display at the Hallmark Gallery in New York includes a "Phooey on Dewey" button, a collection of walking sticks, and the 1901 Independence, Mo., high school yearbook showing Harry and Bess in their caps and gowns. A saltier item among the souvenirs on loan from the Harry S. Truman Library is the ex-President's reply to a tongue-in-cheek suggestion from a U.S. Senator that he appoint the late John L. Lewis Ambassador to Russia. The mine workers' boss, reasoned Truman's correspondent, had a "more formidable" look than Stalin...