Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Responsible doctors continued to pooh-pooh Kelvin's or anyone else's hair restorer. Kelvin says he has not tried Roniacol pills on his own bald head...
When the new film is put on sale in a month, Land expects it to be the most popular new photographic product since his original 60-second camera (TIME, March 3, 1947). Although the camera (at $89.75) was at first pooh-poohed by many dealers as just a costly plaything, it soon made Polaroid one of the biggest U.S. makers of cameras, with an output of more than 500,000 cameras last year...
Princeton's President Harold W. Dodds pooh-poohed rumors that he might retire in June by announcing that he will retire at the end of the 1957 academic year, by which time he will have reached the university's obligatory retirement age of 68 and been president for 24 years, longest term of any Princeton prexy...
...Future. A lot of people-including his brother Celso, also a physician-are urging Stapp to quit. They fear that, while he may pull out of each ride successfully, the cumulative damage to his system may be dangerous. Stapp pooh-poohs such talk, is determined to go on riding his rocket sled. He knows that what he is learning by pressing to the edge of inhuman endurance will hold true even when today's planes are in the museums and tomorrow's speeds have dwindled to slow-motion space crawling...
...year, British factory workers bet on horse and greyhound races. The Methodist Temperance and Social Welfare Committee sin gled out this "constant interruption of industrial effort by gambling'' as one of the main reasons for Britain's low productivity. But the 1951 Royal Commission on Betting pooh-poohed the thought: "Gambling on the [present] scale cannot be. regarded ... as a serious strain on our resources or manpower...