Word: poohs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paso, Scriptwriter Michael (Five Fingers) Wilson, who refused to affirm or deny Communist Party membership before a House committee in 1951, pooh-poohed the charges of subversion. Said he: "This picture is pro-American in the deepest sense. It is a picture that depicts honest working men & women of our country in a light most Hollywood films have ignored ... The film does not inflame racial hatreds. On the contrary, it stresses brotherhood and unity ..." But by that time, few people seemed concerned with what the picture itself...
Aristotle Socrates Onassis is a Greek-born Argentine who water-skis in the best international circles and includes among his friends Prince Rainier III, Pooh-Bah of the tiny principality of Monaco and its famed Monte Carlo Casino. At 47, Onassis has homes in Paris, New York, Montevideo and Antibes, owns or controls a fleet of 91 tankers, freighters and whaling ships worth an estimated $300 million, and has a pretty 23-year-old wife. But he didn't get all this by breaking the bank at Monte Carlo-quite the opposite. Last week "Ari" Onassis...
Song of Terror. British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton, who toured Kenya last month, assured the House of Commons that "we will free Kenya from fear." Yet fear still reigns, and what was once pooh-poohed as a "native" bushfire might easily engulf the richest colony in Britain's East African empire in a racial holocaust. Last week, in the exclusive "White Highlands," settlers went in fear of unseen Mau Mau snipers. One family found that its servants had fled to join the Mau Mau, leaving the beheaded trunks of its loyal "boys" sprawled across the doorstep. At Thomson...
...wipe out Kenya's 30,000 whites (TIME, Oct. 27). Part land hunger, part savage revolution against the domineering white man and the bewildering 20th century, the Mau Mau's blind fury could, if left unchecked, turn the Crown Colony of Kenya into another Malaya. Once pooh-poohed as mere "press exaggeration," the Mau Mau have already mutilated scores of whites and "loyal" blacks, with their favorite weapon, the panga-a long, machete-like knife...
Following a month's visit with her mother in New Jersey, Sloan Simpson O'Dwyer boarded a plane for Mexico City to rejoin her husband, Ambassador William O'Dwyer. Before she left, Sloan smilingly pooh-poohed rumors that she would divorce His Excellency...