Word: poo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boom bah, yippeda, yippeda, yipe. Yo ho heave ho, bibbedy, boppety, boo poop be doo dah. Zippy poo bang wow joo gee pow, pow pow, pow. Yap, sap, flap, trap, blap, bongada bongada...
...Itsy-Poo. In private life, Mary is a quite believable housewife who can't stand housework at all, except for scrubbing floors ("You forget all your troubles and everything except getting that floor clean"),'hates most cooking (beyond fried eggs and melted-cheese sandwiches). And while she is an NBC executive's wife with an eight-year-old son, she says without qualification: "I am a career girl. I couldn't be happy living Laura's life. If I wasn't an actress, I'd have to be doing something else...
...also tends to say studiedly saccharine things like "itsy-poo," but she is sophisticated enough to know just where she wants to go. After next year it's bye-bye Dick Van Dyke. "I would like to be the next Doris Day," she reveals intensely. That may sound like the itsy-pooiest, but it's an understandable yearn for America's favorite TV housewife...
...some exotica as well: "The teen-age boy with hemoglobin of only 20% who looks as if he had been blown up with the helium gas used for balloons at the circus-only the skin of his leiTs is like old, dried, peeling leather"; the African whose homemade poo-poo gun had exploded and taken half his face with it; the difficult obstetrical cases, as for instance the pregnant patient who had to be operated on for a ruptured uterus. "The lady had come about 75 miles in trucks. When she got here, she had no blood pressure...
...Panic & Poo-Poo Guns. Egged on by a Liberation Committee agent, a loosely organized band of 5,000 pygmoid Bafulero tribesmen rose against the Congolese army. Armed with poisoned arrows and "poopoo guns" (homemade muzzle loaders that fire bolts and nails) and anointed with mai Mulele (Swahili for "water of Mulele"), the 5-ft.-tall warriors believed they had been filled with a juice that made them invulnerable to bullets. In their first encounter with government troops, screaming, white-painted Bafulero died in droves under a hail of bullets near the village of Kamaniola...