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Word: poohed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...further south, where they do things big, more than 12,000 students from the University of Texas and residents of Austin mingled for the 20th annual celebration of Eeyore's birthday Eeyore is the perpetually gloomy donkey that appears in A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" books...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, WITH COLLEGE NEWSPAPERS | Title: Spring Spurs Student Parties Across U.S. | 5/18/1983 | See Source »

...pooh-poohs the many tragic terrorist attacks by mentioning them only in passings, and he seems oblivious to the repeated border incidents which the PLO knew would eventually draw the Israelis into Lebanon. Is Timerman so naive, so purblind as to think the PLO hadn't intended to use the Lebanese they had so long terrorized as a spit on which to roust the Israelis in world opinion? It was an option they always knew they...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: The First Casualty | 12/11/1982 | See Source »

...after the Iberian castle Dali bought for his late wife Gala) is not so terrific: no House of Lords, no special privileges. The new marques is as contentious as ever, however. Last week he reportedly claimed that organizers of a retrospective had included 80 bogus canvases in the show. Pooh to Pubol, says one of the organizers, his former personal secretary Peter Moore. The works are more than surreal, they're real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 30, 1982 | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

...Adelphi Theater a fortnight ago, and those loyalists who had come were applauding their own memories as much as the D'Oyly Carte production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado. Listeners knew not just Nanki-Poo's Wandering Minstrel ballad by heart, they knew Pooh-Bah's dialogue. They would have grumbled if any of the costumes, designed by Charles Ricketts in 1926, had been changed. But of course, there were no changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Final Curtain for D'Oyly Carte | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...foot in an upside-down position, it will land on its paws in an incredible 1.8 sec. Its whiskers transmit complex information about its prey and surroundings to nerve bundles beneath the skin. According to one parapsychologist, the cat may even harbor a trace of E.S.P. A feline named Pooh, for example, who wandered off before the owners moved some 200 miles from Newnan, Ga., to a small town near Spartanburg, S.C., turned up at the family's new back door a year later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy over Cats | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

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