Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bagful of tricks opened by the Germans in the Low Countries, most spectacular eye-opener to complacent military men was the employment of parachute troops and air infantry. Pooh-poohed by all the big powers except Russia, Germany's flying infantrymen put on their most impressive show in capturing the Rotterdam airport, then deep inside the Dutch lines. Thoroughly schooled in the lay of the land around the field, a battalion of crack parachuters under a Lieut. Schulz bailed out from 300 feet, picked up weapons dropped with them and went to work on Dutch machine-gun nests. Next...
Only amateurs in Government, said he, grinning, talk of putting a pooh-bah, a Tsar or an Akhund of Swat in charge of national defense. No one man knows enough for the job. Better, said he, to have on the board management (Knudsen), labor (Hillman) and the user-buyers of national defense products (Navy's Knox, Army's Stimson). Under their four-man chairmanship (if it works that way) will be planned the three big Ps of industrial defense: 1) Production, 2) Purchasing, 3) Priorities. The National Defense Advisory Commission will go on planning, advising...
...till now the complacent Cárdenas-Camachistas had busily pooh-poohed any danger of revolution. Government troops were patrolling highways, keeping a close watch on airports and railroads as a check on Almazánista movements. New troops were reported on their way to reinforce the 10,000 already in the capital. Graciano Sanchez had declared 80,000 trained members of his National Confederation of Peasants were ready to take up their rifles in support of Cárdenas and Avila Camacho...
...witticisms, spoke soberly of the might of the German military machine. He denied that German parachute troops had worn Dutch uniforms, declared that there were some half a dozen different Nazi uniforms which might easily have been mistaken for Dutch by untrained observers. He glorified the German air force; pooh-poohed the Allied blockade. Said he matter-of-factly: "The Norway fiasco has taken the heart out of the British people"; added that in the bombing raids over Great Britain civilians around the Thames estuary had ventured out of their bombproof shelters into the vicinity of military objectives...
...This is only Rumor No. 687," pooh-poohed Sportswriter Harry Keck of Pittsburgh's Sun Telegraph last week. But the rumor he was talking about proved well founded. Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland, famed Pitt football coach, who was dumped into the open market a year ago after a row with Pitt educators, was thereafter rumored engaged almost as often as Brenda Frazier, had actually signed a contract: to coach the Brooklyn Dodgers, National League professional-football club...