Word: shooed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What About Lawns? For a while last year, it looked as if the P.T.A. had a shoo-in proposal. Then the city's Christian Scientists roused themselves in protest. Fluoridation, they insisted, meant forced medication. And that was far from the only principle involved. Cried Professor Ernest Engle of the University of Washington's engineering school, a Christian Scientist: "Who endorses fluoridation? Why, the different state agencies, the U.S. Public Health Service and others who are working for socialized medicine in a welfare state . . . The issue of fluoridation is not an ordinary issue. Only the positive proof that...
...Howard Latourette complained bitterly that the Truman Administration was giving him no help. The Veep conspicuously skipped Oregon in his western barnstorming and, when asked, elaborately failed to remember the Democrat's name. He added: "I like Wayne Morse. He is an attractive man." Morse was considered a shoo...
...later by the sluggishness of General George Meade who allowed Lee's defeated Confederate army to slip safely across the Potomac River after Gettysburg. Said Lincoln of Meade's performance: "I'll be hanged if I could think of anything but an old woman trying to shoo her geese across a creek...