Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means original with McNamara, calls for a program under which each American youth must spend a year or so in a national organization of his choice -the military, the Peace Corps, the Job Corps, VISTA or some other public service. Last week, before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, General Hershey pooh-poohed the idea as too expansive and too expensive. Since no fewer than 1,800,000 youngsters come of draft age each year, he seemed to be absolutely right about the cost. And the potential waste caused by plucking brilliant scientists or badly needed prospective doctors from college...
...Sheer Poppycock." Taking the Senate floor to scuttle the scheme, Russell pooh-poohed the notion that the CIA makes U.S. foreign policy ("sheer poppycock"), warned that an enlarged committee would only increase the possibility of security leaks that could endanger the lives of the agency's "sources." What privately troubled many Senators was that the anti-Viet Nam war, power-is-arrogance clique that dominates Fulbright's committee might not be the most objective overseers of the nation's most important intelligence...
...been an eager overachiever. Now he was cutting his favorite class because it was just too far to walk. The only thing he really hungered for was a sense of cool. Like his buddy, Chum Breed, a shadowy man who wore elbow patches on brand-new jackets, and pooh-poohed nearly everything. You name it, and old Chum Breed had done it-from sniffing airplane glue at 14 to surfing at La Jolla. Breed even smelled different somehow. Like a faint whiff of short circuits, Lionel trains, old electric fans. In short, like some infernal ozone...
...pedaled talk of inflation, which by November could hurt Democratic candidates more than any other issue. Thus Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler was still maintaining last week: "My view is that we do not have inflation now." Similarly, Chairman Gardner Ackley of the President's Council of Economic Advisers pooh-poohed talk of imminent tax increases, insisting: "We want to watch the figures more closely for a while...
...better watch out, Mr. Disney. That is not Pooh...