Word: poohing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Virginia gentleman and astute politician that he is, Lindsay Almond in victory pooh-poohed any notion of a split with the venerable Byrd organization-and went out of his way to shake hands with the diehards. But Virginians could hardly help noticing that as the Old Dominion turned away from Byrd's disastrous massive resistance policies, Lindsay Almond was very much in command...
Last week the Indians, who in their anxiety not to offend Peking have previously pooh-poohed rumors of trouble in Tibet, confirmed reports that tough Khamba tribesmen, who have been raiding for centuries against all intruders in Tibet, have now taken on the Reds. According to the reports, up to 8,000 of the leather-booted Khambas, swinging ancient swords on horseback, taking potshots with captured Red rifles and pushing boulders down the mountain sides onto Chinese truck convoys have gained control of a 200-square-mile area in eastern Tibet-most of the basin of the Brahmaputra River south...
...account will we agree to discuss the reunification of Germany." Khrushchev trumpeted. "Let the Germans themselves sit at a round table and solve this problem." Scornfully, he pooh-poohed the Big Four Foreign Ministers' conference on Germany proposed by the West-Gromyko would be too busy. Added Khrushchev: "It is well known that when people want to shelve a problem, it is drowned in endless verbiage from which, as from a swampy marsh, there is no exit." If the West really wanted a solution, it would have to agree to a summit conference, whose subject matter would be limited...
Inevitably the U.S., as the most powerful of Western nations, has been declared the focus of Chinese hatred and resentment. With an ignorant arrogance that could have disastrous consequences for the world, Peking's rulers dismiss the U.S. as a "paper tiger," pooh-pooh the U.S. H-bomb. Four years ago Red China's War Minister confidently told Sam Watson, former chairman of the British Labor Party: "Even if 200 million of us were killed, we would still have 400 million left." Mao himself makes no bones of his ambition to "drive the U.S. out of East Asia...
...what they heard. On his recent trip to Russia, Eaton was so impressed with Soviet good will and "dedication to work," so eager to believe in a Khrushchev who had offered him palmolive-branch assurances ("He wants to make peace with us. He wants to get along . . ."), that he pooh-poohed the Hungarian suppression as not the Russians' fault at all and added that "the Hungarian issue is a phony one." With that, a contagious snarl spread through his audience; but no one could really take the old man too seriously. Said the Washington News: "One more trip...