Word: shoo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election, the Government assembled truckloads of pistoleros to keep Almazanistas from getting nosy. One Government spokesman was admirably frank. Said he, apparently in English, to Jack O'Brine of the New York Herald Tribune: "If they approach any of the vote-counting places with arms tomorrow, we will shoo them away with a 't' on the end of the 'shoo...
...years ago at a captains' dinner, Commissioner Valentine shot a question straight from the shoulder: "What makes you men so jittery? What are you afraid of?" From a nearby table came a sibilant whisper: "The speaker." To police his police, Commissioner Valentine has a special "shoo-fly" (confidential) squad. Since he went into office in September 1934 he has dismissed some 300 men, officially rebuked 3,000, fined 8,000. Most suicides, think the cops, are crushed between the Commissioner's sea-green honesty and granite discipline and the temptations that beset a Manhattan cop: the numbers games...
...Yeddo Bay, one afternoon, puffed two preposterous paddle frigates-Mississippi and Susquehanna-and two sloops-of-war-Plymouth and Saratoga. The former were the first steamships ever to appear in Japanese waters. As soon as they dropped anchor a great swarm of picket boats came out to shoo the smoke-breathing monsters away. A spokesman presented himself on one of these, demanding to see the commanding officer. Perry sent a warrant officer, who said that the "Lord of the Forbidden Interior" was of much too high rank to talk with a mere boatman...