Word: pooh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...future scientific team tomfoolery, might I suggest book burning? Records established in this test of intellect are: encyclopedia ten minutes (Britannica, Volume P), the Talmud twelve minutes, Winnie the Pooh five minutes. Prevalent textbooks may serve as igniters. Paperbacks are hardly sporting. ELIZABETH TAYLOR American Embassy Lima, Peru...
Radio Moscow's story blew up a storm of cables and telephone calls from Western newsmen panting after all the newty details. And, though U.S. scientists soon pooh-poohed the salamander saga, it made the front pages of most U.S. newspapers, which since Sputnik I have tended to overplay far-out Soviet scientific claims. Then a Russian scientist debunked the story. Professor Gleb Lozino-Lozinsky. head of the space biology laboratory at the Leningrad Institute of Cytology, disclosed that it had been lifted from a children's book, and "has nothing to do with science." Snapped...
...such a wonderful friendship that it would be a shame to spoil it with marriage," quoth Actress Joan Fontaine, 45, who has lost three former friends that way: Husbands Brian Aherne, William Dozier and Collier Young. Joan pooh-poohed stories that she was about to marry Cartoonist Charles Addams, 51, the Van Gogh of the ghouls. "Marriage is for people who want babies or to live in villages; since we want neither, we're not interested...
...cantankerous, willful ally at the head of a divided nation, what headaches were in store now that Charles de Gaulle was the absolute leader of a united France? He had often repudiated NATO commitments, brusquely disavowed the West's attempts to negotiate a Berlin settlement with Russia, pooh-poohed every attempt to reach agreement on disarmament, and, despite the entreaties of his allies, pushed stubbornly ahead with his force de frappe, a nuclear deterrent that had neither present logic nor present value in Western defense planning save as the core of an independent European deterrent-and De Gaulle...
...19th century Establishment, is no longer a cozy, close-knit power elite; it has fragmented into "a cluster of interlocking circles, touching others only at one edge; they are not a single Establishment but a ring of Establishments." By contrast with the Victorians, Britain's present-day Pooh-Bahs do not aspire to know "what is best for the people," or conspire to run the country, from whose overall interests they are increasingly insulated. "This." argues Sampson "surely is the greater nightmare of a democracy-not that the government is full of sinister and all-powerful eminences grises...