Word: poohs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats first tried to pooh-pooh the whole affair. Dever, who keynoted the Democratic Convention, refused to answer Herter, denied it was a sneak bill, said both parties had voted for it, charged that the Republican demand for a special session was "a fraud upon the public...
...effects of the steel boost are still to come. Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam, pooh-poohing talk that all prices will shoot up, said he had a plan whereby users would absorb the increases, thus "eliminating any need for increasing prices to consumers." Putnam soon discovered his plan was economic nonsense. Many small fabricators have such small profit margins any further absorption of costs would force them out of business. As a result, the stabilizers, who already have been flooded with requests for price increases to compensate for the steel rise, started looking for a face-saving formula which would...
...which inflight refueling was successfully used. The F-84 Gs replaced a garrison wing of Thunderjets which went to Korea to fight. From Japan the new planes can reach any target in southern Manchuria, and they are equipped with bomb racks for carrying "tactical" (small) atomic bombs. Official Washington pooh-poohed any notion that the U.S. would use atomic weapons either in Manchuria or in North Korea-but the Communists knew that Washington might change its mind...
...eternal thanks to Dr. Donald Menzel, for he has provided me with the needed ammunition in my battle with my gullible friends. Hitherto, my pooh-poohing of the "space-ship theory" . . . has been backed up only by my feeble guesses that they are caused by the trickery of lights; now, some one theory" who has knows and unmasked can these prove his terrors "light-spot (perhaps from another planet...
...French Riviera, Auto Heir Horace E. Dodge Jr., 51, gave some expensive publicity to sometime Actress Gregg Sherwood, 26, whose announcement last year that they would get married was pooh-poohed by Dodge as just an attempt to get more free publicity. On the terrace of the Palm Beach Casino-where 40 guests enjoyed mounds of orchids ($15 each), 60 lbs. of ice-encased caviar and a $1,000 display of fireworks-Horace presented his platinum-blonde friend with a $4,290 gold bracelet (her collection of gewgaws from Dodge already includes a $3,000 gold cigarette lighter...