Word: bugaboo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Communists." Ever since Com- munism became the bugaboo of Occidentals, Netherlandic despatches from Java, Sumatra and Borneo have described all insurgent natives as "Communists." The insurgents' chief avowed grievance is, however, that as Mohammedans they refuse to be governed by Christians. They are "Nationalists" and "anti-Christians" rather than "Communists" in the political sense...
...economic theory is worthless unless it is based on a thorough grasp of the facts gleaned from exhaustive research, and it is particularly the curse of undergraduate thought that its conclusions are usually emotional reactions arising from hasty and superficial reading or discussion. It is nonsense to raise the bugaboo of radicalism in relation to such resolutions as those passed at the Milwaukee conference. They are half-baked, and they could be nothing else. Undergraduates, with very few exceptions, have not studied long enough to subscribe with intellectual honesty to any such statements as those quoted above. The very haziness...
Donovan Affair-Broadway's best bugaboo...
...appointed to succeed General von Seeckt as Chief of the Army Command. Since the new Chef is not a full general he is outranked by the generals commanding the two German army corps. Thus the proud title of General von Seeckt, amounting to "Chief of Staff" (ever a bugaboo to the Allies), has been placed ingeniously in abeyance. The new Chef will serve merely as an adviser to Defense Minister Gessler...
...whole attack is a skillful attempt to create a political bugaboo...