Word: shooing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...