Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hotel, the Cavendish was no place for the unsuspecting tourist. Most strangers who ventured into the dim, cluttered lobby at 82 Jermyn Street were sternly told to try elsewhere. Others, if they were lucky enough to remind the proprietress of some long-vanished Victorian buck or Bostonian pooh-bah, would be clasped to her shapely bosom and regaled with surrealistic reminiscences about old Lord Droopy Drawers and Lady You-Know-'Oo, or "the time we went to Ireland on roller skates...
...look askance at this headlong expansion and at the fact that Bedas, de spite the growing complexity of Intra's operations, continues to run it as a one-man show. But last week, as he hopped from Rome to Paris to London inspecting his empire, cocky Yusuf Bedas pooh-poohed any suggestion of overextension...
...interview with TV's David Brinkley, James B. Donovan, 46, pooh-poohed outcries that he had done the Kremlin a favor by helping engineer the exchange of Spymaster Rudolf Abel for U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers. "The only information Abel could communicate to Moscow now," insisted the Manhattan lawyer, "would be descriptions of life in the penitentiary in Atlanta." Donovan doubted, too, that the Russians would reassign Abel to espionage duty. Said he: "There would always remain the lingering suspicion-especially in a semi-Oriental mind -that he had made some private deal with me to become...
Bonn officials pooh-poohed the whole affair as an obvious effort to divide the West, and Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss declared that West Germany would "under no circumstances" change its policy. But the West German press and public clearly got a big charge out of all the unexpected attention. MOSCOW WOOING BONN AGAIN, boasted the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung; headlined another paper: MOSCOW CONTINUES SOFT WAVE...
...this picture accurate? Last week an overwhelming majority of high school teachers interviewed by TIME across the U.S. pooh-poohed it. Instead, they hailed a "salubrious" ferment in their classrooms. "This is the most exciting thing in my career," says English Teacher Harold R. Keables, veteran of 27 years at Denver's South High School. "There is a new appreciation of intellectual achievement. The kids are perhaps more serious, but not solemn or glum or dull. They are on fire with enthusiasm for learning...