Word: bogeying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...written when she was pregnant (an almost continuous state for her from ages 17 to 21), is put in the context of responding to Milton's Paradise Lost, dealing with his concept of the "Monstrous Eve" which Virginia Woolf (who pops up frequently in this text) called "Milton's Bogey...
Should the left--primarily Blacks, students and feminists--stay home, it will send a message that it cannot be counted on to always back the lesser of three evils. It will also hand the election to Ronald Wilson Reagan, the bogey-man in the closet whose image every speaker this week has summoned in an effort to keep the troops in line. There are those who say a Reagan presidency would be the best thing that could happen to the left--four years of fascism, they reason, might turn Americans into leftists again. The people who talk like this most...
...rolled home the final shot of the match for a bogey five on the 18th, snatching respectability from the jaws of embarrassment...