Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Frankenstein Monster? Mathematician Wiener had often said this before, and been pooh-poohed as an alarmist. Last week he was not laughed at. Allen N. Scares, vice president and general manager of Remington Rand, Inc., told of a machine, UNIVAC, manufactured by his company, that can do most of the numerical tasks now performed by flesh & blood clerks. In computing payroll checks, for instance, it "reads" (at 10,000 characters per second) two magnetic tapes with numbers coded on them. One tape carries all the data about each employee: his wage rate, tax status, pension deductions, etc. The other carries...
TIME . . . deals rather facetiously with the subject of flying saucers, pooh-poohing all factual data which has made headlines previously. If the saucer operation is a military secret, why say anything about...
Despite Mortimer's insistence on the revenge motive, Fellow Columnist Winchell, who also knows a gangster or two, pooh-poohed the claim: "Underworlders can't believe 'any of the Mob' did it-on the grounds that beating up newspapermen 'is hard luck...
...Costello was not the only big shot who pooh-poohed the idea that bookies could be reached by law. The committee heard the same line from St. Louis' bland, bankerish James J. Carroll, the Mr. Big of betting, who announces winter book odds on the Kentucky Derby, and "lays off" (in effect, reinsures) all kinds of bets with gamblers across the nation. When he was asked what a bookie needed to operate, beyond the racing wire, he answered with one word: "Money...
Johnson, who less than a month ago had loftily pooh-poohed Dwight Eisenhower's advice that the nation should spend more for national defense, had now found that U.S. armaments were indeed inadequate in the light of "recent events." (Among the recent events he listed were the fall of China and the Russian bomb, which Louis Johnson might have taken into account months ago, since everybody else...