Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This year, said Henderson, in round figures, our spendable national income will amount to $80 billions. Only $65 billions of consumable goods (1941 prices) will be available. 2) England's urbane, puckish, innovating economist, J. M. Keynes, originally detonated the deferred-pay bombshell in November 1939. The Exchequer pooh-poohed Keynes in 1940, but put a part of his idea into the 1941-42 budget...
...week, standing watch on his first trip to sea. Heavy seas frosted his binoculars, rendered them useless. But he kept to the watch. Said he: "I seen this object with my naked eye. It looked like a yaller box, maybe three miles off." The bridge could not see it, pooh-poohed his warning until a ruby-red SOS light appeared. "It" was an orange life raft from a torpedoed ship. Six survivors, one of them already prostrate from exhaustion, were picked up. Commended by the Third Naval District's Rear Admiral Adolphus An drews for his uncanny eyesight, bashful...
...London Daily Herald, whose largest stockholder (49%) is TUC, made an investigation of its own, pooh-poohed the Bevin theory, warned that continued "drain of skilled men into the forces" is leaving gaping holes in war industry that cannot be plugged. Bawled Bevin, an old TU Congressman himself: "A paper that I helped to build-a working-class paper -is carrying on a nagging, quisling policy. ... I am disqusted with the business since I left...
...Chief pooh-pooher of the theory last week was Astronomer Charles Clayton Wylie of the University of Iowa. His big objection: contraterrene material zooming earthward would unite with air, "releasing energy such that a gram of meteorite and air would produce an explosion equivalent to that of 15,000 tons of nitroglycerin. Obviously a meteorite made of contraterrene material would be blown to bits . . . high in the upper air. So the assumption ... is impossible...
Last week, in the hour of Axis victory, the two dictators, with their Pooh-Bahs and generals, doubtless talked of new worlds to conquer: the Near East and Africa lay before them. With the fall of Crete and the alignment of France with Germany, the Mediterranean had become no longer safe for Great Britain. But it was a hollow hour for Benito Mussolini. His archenemy Britain had been driven from Mare Nostrum at last. Now Mare Nostrum was German...