Word: pooh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With these fears in mind the Treasury forgot about the dangers of the failure of its issue, ignored the fact that it was antagonizing its customers, the bond buyers, blandly pooh-poohed the consequences of its decision...
President Brandt pooh-poohs the idea that liberal education will be a casualty of World War II, says confidently: "There will be no place in the world after the war for gentlemen in the old European sense of men trained merely in Greek and in Latin, but there will always be a place for the gentlemanly intellect...
British officials in Cairo pooh-poohed the story as a German gag to explain the failure of Rommel's drive...
...charges that he got $125,000 from the Japs in four years, paid by Manhattan's Japanese Vice Consul Shintaro Fukushima. The down payment on June 21, 1938, was $15,000. Thereupon Living Age promptly denounced the Open Door as a perfidious British invention, sugared Jap aggression, pooh-poohed the U.S. stakes in the Far East ("so small that they would not pay the Federal tax on cigarets smoked by the nation in ten months"). The Japs guaranteed Living Age's deficit of $2,500 a month...
Anyone who thought that U-boats off the U.S. East Coast had been worsted needed only to read a Navy announcement last week to know how serious the situation was: the Navy, which as late as a month ago pooh-poohed the idea of using small craft for anti-submarine patrol, made a public appeal to fishermen and yachtsmen for 1,000 such boats-in addition to 1,200 others which already have been quietly taken into service...