Word: pooh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ears of the Citizens Board of the University of Chicago like a series of rock-filled snowballs. For the prophet was the University's Theodore W. Schultz, professor of agricultural economics, adviser to the United Nations Food Commission, economic consultant to the Lend-Lease Administration, and general agricultural Pooh...
Gerald Nye's henchmen hurriedly tried to pooh-pooh this. But North Dakota is one state in which Tom Dewey needs little added help. Observers agree it is solidly Republican; the latest Gallup poll showed Tom Dewey leading...
G.O.P. National Chairman Herbert Brownell Jr., friend and choice of Tom Dewey, pooh-poohed the series of incidents. Said he: "Merely a matter of phraseology...
...Martinez pooh-poohed. Said he of the school strikes: "No children like going to school." But the military, impressed by the civilian stir, made as if to climb on the bandwagon. Martinez, impressed in turn, granted a partial amnesty. After 44 death sentences and many quiet executions, Salvadorians were not appeased...
...revolutionary overtones of a strange jumble of free-enterprise socialism, the proposal was calmly received in San Francisco and elsewhere in the U.S. Manhattan's Journal of Commerce merely pooh-poohed it as absurd...