Word: bogeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clearly, that old bogey the isolationist had gotten no mandate. Much of the confusion stemmed from a misunderstanding of McCarthyism, a made-in-America product fashioned out of wild charges and genuine fears. It could be, and was, used by politicians who wanted to cut the heart out of U.S. policy. But it was also invoked by Republicans whose criticism of the State Department was not that it was doing too much in Europe, but that it had not done enough in Asia. Maryland's John Marshall Butler, who had sensationally defeated McCarthy's archfoe, Millard Tydings, favored...
...Nightclubs, I hate 'em," grumped Humphrey ("Bogey") Bogart, who hasn't been kicked out of one since last September, when his stuffed giant panda got into a tug-o'-war with a brunette in Manhattan's El Morocco (TIME, Oct. 10). "The trouble with them is that you see the same old tired faces, the same drunks and the same dames...
...past, even enlightened Frenchmen like Schuman, who do not overestimate the boche bogey, had been reluctant about Franco-German economic integration because they were afraid that, without the British in on the deal to help outbalance German productive capacity, French industry would be swamped by Germany. But the French government had overcome this fear. Said one French diplomat last week: "In 1936, when Hitler occupied the Rhineland, we refrained from moving in because the British wouldn't come with us. Afterwards, the British told us, 'If you had marched, we should have been obliged to come with...
Though government communiqués spoke darkly of their old bogey, the neo-fascist Movement of Nationalist Revolution, the President faced far more deep-seated and widespread opposition than the M.N.R. For over three months he had been trying without success to get other democratic parties to join with his own Republican Socialist Union Party in a coalition government to stave off economic disaster. Just before the state-of-siege order, a rumor went around that a group of army officers had given Urriolagoitia 24 hours to form a "government of national unity...