Word: poohs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Revolutionaries and their allies, had broken out. Most of the leading Bolsheviks were still on their way to Petrograd from places of exile. In their absence Molotov, one of the editors of Pravda, gave out Bolshevik policy: Demand the complete Marxist program forthwith. When the big Bolsheviks arrived, they pooh-poohed the youthful (27) Molotov's naive and uncompromising view. But when Lenin stepped out of his railroad car in the Finland Station, having been transported through Germany in a sealed car, it was seen that Molotov had been right: Lenin demanded "immediate peace [with Germany], bread and land...
...Times 'pooh-poohed Telles' slate as the "P for Pooley ticket". Pooley's Herald-Post attacked Mayor Rogers' record with Page One "photographic editorials" showing potholed pavements and exposed water lines. In their eagerness to clear or smear the city administration, the papers even scrapped over details of a drunk-driving arrest; the Herald-Post declared that police had beaten the driver, one Isidro Fernandez, and used a chain hoist to haul him out of a ditch. Sneered Pooley, whose cop-baiting helped drive one El Paso police chief to a nervous breakdown: "Ah, such...
...Daly felt that the U.N. story "vitally needs editing" before it reaches the public. Though it made no effort to explain the absence of live U.N. pickups, NBC detailed the amount of TV coverage given the Middle East crisis on spot news slots-43 minutes, 15 seconds-which Gould pooh-poohed: "When vital history was being made, NBC video was fascinated by Queen for a Day in Hollywood...
...years before he became King, "he had talked about an Entente with France, and for 15 years [about] a rapprochement with Russia." Both notions were pooh-poohed by his mother and most of her ministers, who worked stubbornly for an entente with Germany. Bertie's views did not prevail until the heirs of Bismarck made it clear that Germany intended to expand at Britain's expense. Bertie came to the throne in 1901, and from then until his death (1910) "there was scarcely a diplomatic move ... which did not receive his active help." What Author Cowles suggests...
...word got around that a gynecologist had gone to see her. Instantaneously, England's press corps, abetted by its American peers, jumped to the conclusion that Marilyn was expecting a baby. Not so. Racing back to his bride from a brief visit to the U.S., Playwright Arthur Miller pooh-poohed the baby talk. "Absolute rubbish!" cried he. "I would know if my wife were expecting a baby. She is ill with gastritis, that's all. She often gets a tummy ache when she's making a new film...