Word: poppycock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Papaya & Poppycock...
...safe" [TIME, Oct. 3], dozens of us have partaken daily of Bikini's coconuts and papaya, with full clearance from both radiochemist and radio-medical officer. For six weeks we swam daily in the "poisoned lagoon" and walked hip-deep by the hour in the "radioactive water." Poppycock ! Over two years ago the scientists reported that a man living for months on twice-A-bombed Bikini would be exposed to radioactivity roughly equivalent to one chest...
Breakfast-table education, every now and then, turns into breakfast-table poppycock and drivel. Recently, for instance, this newspaper printed a story about a student who wrote a C-plus hour examination in a Social Relations course in which he was not enrolled, had done no reading, and had been to no lectures. This accomplishment has brought on, along with the jokes, a lot of serious talk. But very little of this talk has come anywhere near the point brought out by the case...
...Kremlin. Always a promoter of the old illusion that Communism and local patriotism can mix, she had applauded Yugoslavia's Tito too freely, and she was suspected of trying to get to China to peddle Titoism to her old friend, Mao Tse-tung. To this Anna answered: "Poppycock." She was already feeling better about being back home: "I feel more . . . comfortable in this country than in any other part of the world. I do not find it the most interesting or exciting country ... I want to go to some country where there...
Snorted Pauley: "I've never heard such poppycock in my life." As Stassen poured it on, Pauley fidgeted, mopped his face with his handkerchief. The muscles of his jaw twitched angrily. Twice he leaped to his feet, pointed a long, bony finger at Stassen and demanded a "right to" defend himself against the "false charges of that man right there...