Word: poppycock
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...TIME contributor) Michael Kinsley broadly hinted that Choate, despite his denials, was engaging in "McCarthyism" with "his easy accusations of disloyalty, his imagery of infection of the body politic, his woozy mixture of falsehoods, half-truths and exaggerations." Hobart Rowen, a Washington Post columnist, called Choate's theories "pure poppycock...
...Lynch, a vice president of Wendy's: "Clara can find the beef only in one place, and that is Wendy's." Then he added, "We don't have a beef against Clara or Campbell. We love her and we are sad to see her go." To which Peller responded poppycock, or, more to the point, where's the beef? Said she: "I've made them millions and they don't appreciate...
Harvard's explanation for the size of the Lateness and Replacement Fees is that they are "incentives" not to be tardy or forgetful. Poppycock. Incentives make one act for a reward: they are the carrot. These fees are silly penalties: they are the stick...
...York City. In a draft that has already been circulated, the Chicago researchers decided to take a few swipes at the recent Johns Hopkins findings. They argued that Benbow and Stanley had measured performance, not ability. Says Usiskin: "To assume that the SAT has no connection with experience is poppycock." Replies Stanley, who now has 50,000 subjects to bolster his conclusion: "People are so eager not to believe that there is a difference in mathematical reasoning ability between boys and girls that all kinds of people are taking potshots...
...which the administration replied, "Poppycock...