Word: bogeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernie was not being realistic. Neither Australia nor Canada wanted to join Britain in pursuing the will-o'-the-wisp of an imperial closed shop. Bevin took another poke at the rich old bogey of the U.S. "I know these Americans will be upset," he said, "but I've got to upset somebody. My own conviction is that she handicapped herself ... by failure to redistribute the Fort Knox gold ... to assist in increasing the purchasing power of the devastated areas of the world...
...masturbation means glad, happy, eager children who are not much interested in masturbation. A masturbation Verbot means miserable, unhappy children, often prone to colds and epidemics, hating themselves and consequently hating others. I say that the happiness and cleverness of Summerhill children is due to the removal of the bogey of fear and self-hate that such Verbots give...
...worst bogey haunting U.S. laboratories is the fear of narrow-minded military domination. The next worst is the fear that government funds will be granted chiefly to shortrange, "practical" projects...
Members of the Executive Board were quick to reply. Huffed their spokesman: "Shameful Red baiting ... the ranting and raving and distortion of facts by a bogey-ridden mind...
...John Boyd Orr proposed a permanent international food council with powers to execute the recommendations of FAO, which now has only advisory functions. But the old bogey of national sovereignty immediately rose to plague the delegates. Any international food board with real power would tend inevitably to equalize food consumption; nations that can get more food by their own devices are likely to oppose genuine world food control. The U.S. would not want to accept the British calorie level, and the British would not want India...