Word: poohing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward Manhattan. At first everyone, including much of the Danish press, pooh-poohed Denmark's decision, and some nations openly hooted. A spokesman for the French Atomic Energy Commissariat pronounced it "extraordinary and absurd in view of the fact that the crew has lived aboard the Skate for so long with no sign of contamination." Officials in The Netherlands and West Germany said they would be delighted to receive Skate. Washington fired off a barrage of reassurances. Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover declared that ''there has been a review of all possible mishaps," and that the submarine...
...German engineers, attempting to demonstrate that the Communist world has as much to offer technologically as the U.S., blandly explained that it was not their fault that the $8,000,000 cane-sugar refinery near Djokjakarta, which they had promised to finish by now, was still not in production. Pooh-poohing Indonesian charges that the mill's machinery had been designed to process beet rather than cane sugar, the East Germans huffily and indignantly complained that everything would have worked out fine had Indonesian contractors laid proper concrete foundations...
...Grandma and her grandma used to say that the best way to treat a burn was to hold it under the spout (cold water, naturally), but later generations of medical scientists have pooh-poohed the idea. Now, University of Utah researchers are convinced that grandma was right: cold (not iced) water or a cold wet pack is the best first aid for burns, should be started within seconds or minutes to do the most good. Principal beneficiary of the research is the U.S. Navy, which paid for it. Navymen are exposed to many burn hazards and usually have plenty...
...following is the first of a series of articles taken from the Winston Pooh lectures on Myth and Mystery in Modern American Prose delivered last year at Wheat Forest College in Illinois. Mr. Pooh was internationally recognized for his three volume treatise on The Totem-Pole in American Indian Culture...
...trade fair in Moscow when he attended Moscow's Agricultural Exhibition in 1954, noted how thousands of Russians flocked in to view dull farm machinery and farm produce. When he approached the U.S. Government with the idea for a U.S. trade fair, it raised no objections but pooh-poohed the notion that the Russians would ever permit such a fair. Neuburger got Manhattan Lawyer Marshall MacDuffie (who, as chief of the UNRRA mission to the Ukraine after World War II, had met Khrushchev) to talk to top Russian brass, himself talked long and hard with Russian trade officials...