Word: poohing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indication that he faced any damaging new disclosures. Rather, the former Marine colonel seemed to friends to be tormented by a nagging general sense of failure. As National Security Adviser, he sometimes confessed frustration at being unable to "move these elephants," his unflattering description of the powerful foreign policy Pooh-Bahs in the Reagan Administration...
Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, who wrote on Harvard's history, was virtually born with Crimson blood. Perhaps for that reason, Friedrich pooh-poohs any idea of a Harvard mystique. Says he: "I grew up there, my father (Carl J., who helped create the West German constitution) was a professor of government there, and the life of the faculty was our neighborhood life. I wasn't that impressed. Anyway, I almost flunked out my freshman year." Friedrich quickly recovered, though, and graduated magna cum laude...
...after reading the fine print in Gorbachev's offer, Western military analysts pooh-poohed it. Noting that three of the six regiments were antiaircraft units, they pointed out that Afghanistan's mujahedin resistance fighters lack an air force. Gorbachev's list also included an armored regiment not suited for the mountainous terrain where most of the fighting is taking place. In Islamabad, Resistance Leader Sibghatullah Mujaddadi asked, "How many years will it take for the withdrawal of all the 120,000 Soviet troops if pullback of 8,000 is going to take six months...
Mention Bears these days, and many Britons hardly give a thought to Paddington or Winnie-the-Pooh. The biggest bears of all, they know, come from Chicago. Ever since an N.F.L. game of the week started showing up on the country's TV screens four years ago, the "other" game of football throws fewer and fewer people for a loss. A monthly magazine called Touchdown counts 160,000 readers, and one Briton in every ten saw the Bears in this year's Super Bowl. It's not cricket, of course, but football seems certain to gain even more ground this...
Even The Crimson often fails to give Harvard the benefit of the doubt. Last February, The Crimson pooh-poohed the handling of the Hibbs resignation, saying the University didn't make enough information about the case available to the public to make it credible. And like many students around here, The Crimson continues to view Derek Bok as a Villain, as one who has isolated himself from undergraduates because he does not wish to debate his views on South Africa with them...