Word: poohs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During a party in Miami last December, five members of the Detroit Lions bet $50 apiece on the Green Bay Packers to win the N.F.L. championship. For that, Rozelle fined each of them $2,000. He clipped the Detroit club $4,000 for pooh-poohing the whole business. Then he threw the book at Detroit's tough Tackle Alex Karras, 27, and Green Bay Halfback Paul Hornung, 27, the N.F.L.'s Most Valuable Player in 1961. Karras, said Rozelle, had made "at least six significant bets" of $50 and $100 on N.F.L. games since 1958. Hornung, football...
Even then, Zermatt officials publicly pooh-poohed rumors of an epidemic. The Zermatt Tourist Office pronounced Zermatt's water "99.93% pure," while local citizens denounced the "foreign sensationalist press" for reporting the gossip...
...there seemed to be no room in her future for Pepsi on the Rocks. In Philadelphia with Adopted Daughter Cindy to accept an award from the Philadelphia Club of Advertising Women, the veteran screen star, widow of Pepsi Cola Chairman Alfred M. Steele and herself a board member, pooh-poohed those rumors that she might play First Lady to New York's dashing, divorced Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Highly unlikely, said Joan; she has only met Rocky once. Furthermore, "I don't need this publicity, and I'm sure he doesn't. How can you be engaged...
...future scientific team tomfoolery, might I suggest book burning? Records established in this test of intellect are: encyclopedia ten minutes (Britannica, Volume P), the Talmud twelve minutes, Winnie the Pooh five minutes. Prevalent textbooks may serve as igniters. Paperbacks are hardly sporting. ELIZABETH TAYLOR American Embassy Lima, Peru...
Radio Moscow's story blew up a storm of cables and telephone calls from Western newsmen panting after all the newty details. And, though U.S. scientists soon pooh-poohed the salamander saga, it made the front pages of most U.S. newspapers, which since Sputnik I have tended to overplay far-out Soviet scientific claims. Then a Russian scientist debunked the story. Professor Gleb Lozino-Lozinsky. head of the space biology laboratory at the Leningrad Institute of Cytology, disclosed that it had been lifted from a children's book, and "has nothing to do with science." Snapped...