Word: bogeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with their eyes ... It is possible to end the disorder immediately, but it is not this government that can do it." Just Short of a Year. As a maneuver to head off the inevitable, Bidault's Cath olic M.R.P., biggest party in Laniel's coalition, raised the bogey of "dissolution" - the constitutional provision that stipulates that the National Assembly may be dissolved and new national elec tions held if within 18 months two cabinets are overturned by absolute major ities (at present, 314 votes) on votes of confidence. French politicians, anxious to hold on to their red plush...
...conservatively until they decided how the market would go. But much of the buying also came from those who thought interest rates were about at their peak and that they would not get as good a return in the future. There was a growing feeling that the big worldwide bogey was no longer inflation, but deflation...
...that Winchell had printed Russian propaganda, Winchell amiably agreed. "Do you remember when Mr. Churchill made his famous speech [in 1946, warning of Russian aggression] at Fulton, Mo.?" asked Rifkind. Answered Winchell: "I panned hell out of it." He admitted having used in his column such Winchellese as "Sovvy-bogey, Reds-under-the-beds-panicker, Bolshy boo, the fi-fo-fuming of forumites" to blast the critics of Russia. Mindful that Winchell bases most of his attacks on Post Editor Wechsler on Wechsler's admitted membership in the Young Communist League 15 years ago (TIME...
Ortega y Gassest's "mass-man" is one such evil. Viereck's method for conquering that bogey is "not to retreat into un-American class lines in order to make some men aristocrats," but "to subordinate economics to cultural values, and to subordinate external coercion to internal self-discipline, in order to make all men aristocrats...
...typical Democratic bogey is the Taft-Hartley law. Democrats have pledged to repeal and rewrite the law, while Republicans would add the 22 liberalizing amendments proposed by Senator Taft three years ago. Since a new Democratic law as proposed by the CIO includes these amendments, the final legislative product will be almost the same no matter who wins...