Word: bogeyman
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...simply another bogeyman that people love to fear, like the Red Scare and UFO's of the fifties. Although shark fever certainly has become a cult as some pendent entrepreneurs will swear to by the burgeoning market for shark's tooth pendants and spin-off products like posters, T-shirts and beach towels...
Things started slowly; there were only three Faculty meetings in the fall term; the new calendar stayed dormant; the Faculty's former bogeyman, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, seemed forgotten; the Commission of Inquiry took months to select its members; and the caucuses seemed dead...
...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...