Word: bogeyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue drastically symbolized by the steel strike. When Stevenson, as now head of the Democratic Party, could have prevented Truman from campaigning, he might have fulfilled his promise to give up a high level campaign. Instead we have Truman running against Jay Gould and other present-day bogey-men. I hope that, if elected, Stevenson will not feel indebted to the man whose administration will probably go down as one of four most corrupt. His record so far in resisting pressures, contrary to his words, does not speak well for him. W. A. Newcomb...
...next chance for college students to ward off the old bogey draft will come on December 4, Selective Service Director General Lewis B. Hershey announced recently...
...some time I have been wondering whether [Eisenhower] was going to find something to say that would not offend one of the Republican parties. Now at last I think he found it. In recent days he has come forth with a fine, free-swinging attack on that old bogey, corruption . . . There is no issue between him and myself on corruption. I am not only against it, I have actually done something about it. I was elected in Illinois to clean out one of the most corrupt regimes that ever inflicted itself on the state...
...double bogey on the 17th hole cost Bill Timpson a sub-par round yesterday, but the Crimson senior still managed to card a 71, best Harvard score in competition this season, as Coach Frank Richart's varsity swamped Amherst, 8 to 2, at the Dedham Country Club...
...frequent worry of Hillsiders-forest fires ("If there was a fire I'd probably get everybody and jump in the pool"), rattlesnakes ("We find five or six [every] year"), and the high cost of gentleman farming ("Our eggs cost $2 apiece"). And when he talked of possums, Bogey's eyes positively glittered. Snarled he: "I shoot possums. They'd suck eggs...