Word: bogeying
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...Boston coalition for peace. The man had long black hair, tied back into a pony-tail, and a poorly trimmed moustache. The woman had her head shaved to ear level topped by a shock of short, bleached-blond hair. They looked like the kind of pinko-liberal bogey-men who Salient editors see in their nightmares. They spoke immediately about the United States’ legacy of propping up murderous Middle Eastern dictators and violating human rights around the world. When asked what peaceful alternative to war they would suggest, one offered that America should immediately decrease the cost...
Social scientists say three types of rumors commonly emerge following a catastrophe: wish-fulfillment rumors, bogey rumors and wedge-driving rumors. The old man's debris ride to safety is a classic wish-fulfillment rumor, as is the story that Osama bin Laden is dying of liver cancer. Bogey rumors (derived from the bogeyman) are based on fear. Poisoned reservoirs, anthrax attacks, the visage of Satan in the World Trade Center smoke and the Klingerman virus (which supposedly arrives through the mail on a sponge in a blue envelope marked "A Gift for You from the Klingerman Foundation") all play...
...Some called it the capitalist equivalent of sinking a 30-foot putt for a triple bogey, and merely shook their heads. But the same technical-minded folks who hate the sight of a downward staircase were feeling mighty good about the spike at the bottom of the three-day slide. To them, it looked like the sellers had gotten tired of selling, tired of assuming the worst about corporate earnings and capital investment, tired of worrying about how far consumer confidence will have fallen when the first post-disaster reports hit the Street. Tired of fear...
...believe the former paratrooper who spent time in jail after leading a failed military coup can succeed where others have failed in enforcing OPEC discipline. But whether or not he can deliver on his threats is a moot point: If oilmen Cheney and Bush are looking for a foreign bogey man with which to scare American voters, right now Chavez is writing himself the part...
...Woods has "the ability to stay in the present during a tournament and focus on hitting one shot at a time," Duran says. Woods' profane outbursts, once common, are now rare. He has learned to laugh at himself more often, which he did even when he made a triple-bogey in the third round at the U.S. Open...