Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every girl who ever pooh-poohed her parents' stodgy, old-fashioned precepts about life, who ever yearned for Don Juan and settled for Steady John...
...pool a contractor once installed (1942) in U.S. Senator Chandler's back yard, and producing some damning canceled checks, totaling $32,841,40, which Happy received from a liquor wholesaler at a time when he was Senator and baseball's high commissioner. For a while Lawyer Chandler pooh-poohed the "silly questions" about the liquor firm's checks, finally got the company's former president to declare that they were legitimate fees for legal services. The nature of the services has never been explained...
...stewards' demand for a shorter work week-44 hours as opposed to what they call the 56-70 hours now demanded of them. As the week drew on, the strikers immobilized the biggest prize of all, the Queen Mary. Fuming with indignation because the shipowners had pooh-poohed the likelihood of a strike until they were comfortably settled in their cabins, hundreds of the Mary's passengers, many of them U.S. tourists, were bundled off the ship and deposited back in London, to stand holding wilted flowers and half-empty champagne bottles in Waterloo Station...
...officials tried to pooh-pooh NBC's performance. "Spectacular, schmectacular!" scoffed one CBS brasshat. "What we ask is: 'Is it good?'" CBS answered its own question by announcing that next fall it will do at least ten go-minute shows...
Among Britain's moppet set, he is as famous as Pooh or Piglet, sells faster than Alice, is better known than Kenneth Grahame's Mole. He has appeared in eight 10,000-word books (10 million copies), five Noddy annuals, four strip books, 20 small books, been translated into everything from Swahili to Tamil to Hebrew. Last week, after he made his debut on the stage, London critics had to admit that Noddy in Toyland...