Word: bogeyman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they did not really move on. Only the sacrifice of our boys saved the situation, and then we launched not a very heavy counterattack and they fled. [The Iraqis want] to keep their people busy; so they are always creating an imaginary enemy-how do you say?-a bogeyman? The second time they opened up with artillery, and they suffered very heavily when we counterattacked...
...from now on who will lie in wait in dark corners, the bogeyman, the bogeywoman or the bogeyperson...
...Spozed To Be, he makes readers of his book really know why the Johnnies of America don't respond to their teachers and learn to read. And fortunately, where it would have been easy to pain his audience with his own deep pessimism, he doesn't play the bogeyman. At the same time that he is writing. "Look, the situation is hopeless: my manual instructs me to encourage creativity, but my kids would rather take the salamanders meant for our science show-and-tell and fry them on the classroom radiator," he is working us into believing that...
...Burly Bogeyman...
...Haitian bogeyman was called "Tonton Macoute" because he carried a large bag into which he popped naughty children and carried them away. He was represented in earlier and more authentic sculpture and pictures as a huge burly man with an oversized "macoute...