Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are other familiar examples of the nonverbal remedial ritual. To hide her embarrassment at having to go to the bathroom, a girl at a party sometimes uses broad swimming motions to cut her way through a knot of guests obstructing her route. In Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, out "hunting" with a friend, is startled by something innocuous and jumps involuntarily. To show he really isn't frightened he jumps up and down several more times in "an exercising sort...
EVERY Administration has its in-house contact with big business-a staff aide or presidential intimate to hear the complaints, plead the cases and soothe the ruffled feathers of the fat cats and Pooh-Bahs. The position naturally invites allegations of mollycoddling business at public expense. But few who have held it have proved more controversial or more subject to charges of favoritism than Peter Flanigan, Richard Nixon's "Mr. Fixit" when it comes to powerful business interests...
...nation than a collection of traditionally suspicious and unequal tribes. Linked only by language (Arabic) and faith (Islam), the six founding members differ vastly in size and population as well as in wealth. Abu Dhabi (pop. 100,000) and Dubai (70,000), for instance, sit on top of enormous pooh of oil; nearby Fujeira (10,000) and Umm al Qaiwain (4,500) have none. Dubai, moreover, has the states' principal port; from there, smugglers have long done a lucrative business in carrying gold, perfumes and Swiss watches to India. Sharjah (pop. 38,000) is so poor that its chief...
...children, Frank Jr. and Ernestine, wrote Dozen in 1949, describing the management techniques used in the Gilbreth household: a daily assembly call, a weekly family budget session, and a division of labor scheme whereby chores were assigned to the lowest bidder. During a lecture three years ago, Dr. Gilbreth pooh-poohed the burden of old age: "It's really a matter of marshaling your resources, using time sensibly...
What about the buzz that Queen Elizabeth is most unhappy because Princess Anne, 21, is really serious about handsome London Realtor Richard Meade, 32, gold-medal-winning show jumper on Britain's Equestrian Team? "Silly gossip," pooh-poohed the palace spokesman. "He is numbered among her friends." No doubt about that. After British Show-Jumping Star Harvey Smith publicly remarked that European Horse Trial Champion Anne was "nowhere near Olympic standard," he got a fast telegram from Meade-not exactly challenging him to a duel, but offering to bet him $600 that he would beat Smith at the Badminton...