Word: poo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the first marches were held last summer, the government, through its minister in charge of police, Captain Craig, poo-pooed them as "green parades." The government implied that it considered the civil rights organizations to be a new variety of the old fashioned Ulster Republican. Naturally, the police in Ulster began to feel the same...
...Department of the Interior. It therefore gave him special pleasure when, while hacking his way through an island rain forest in search of rare biological specimens, he spotted a bird with a "yellow posterior and a peculiar, sickle-shaped bill." The bird was the Mauinukupuu (pronounced noo-koo-poo-oo), which had been considered extinct since...
...return the nation's U.N. ambassador, Saturnine Ibongo lyanga, said his countrymen hoped to be "an Iberian bridge to Africa." All differences seemed ironed out between the 60,000 Fangs of underdeveloped Rio Muni, the mainland wing, and the 8,000 Bubis of the prosperous island of Fernando Poo. Francisco Macias Nguema, 45, was elected President, and his fellow Fang, cosmopolitan Atanasio Ndongo, 41, became Foreign Minister. Then, unhappily, the Fangs fell...
...Poo Poo," she said very quietly...
...Poo Poo," said Mildred quietly...