Word: bugaboo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will defeat Russia in their atomic contest, resort to whatever slogans desperation suggests to try to swing American public opinion behind the Russian cause. I describe this process step by step, as the media's panjandrums reluctantly but inexorably leave sanity behind and begin hysterically to raise the bugaboo of "the yellow peril...
...ludicrous that the President and his Administration still hold dear the bugaboo of Communism to perpetuate our ridiculous role of the world's policemen! I refuse to allow my sympathy to be aroused by the sadly gory pictures in TIME, but remember instead the pictures of our American servicemen who lost their lives in the war we never should have fought in Viet...
...education. In 1973, the State Supreme Court declared that heavy reliance on local property taxes created wide disparities in the quality of education. But the state senate blocked a $300 million plan submitted by Governor Brendan Byrne to rectify the imbalance because it depended on enactment of that old bugaboo, a state income...
...BUGABOOS. In the wilder reaches of British Columbia, the two dozen peaks of the Bugaboo range are unique. No lifts climb the glaciers and forested hillsides. Helicopters airlift skiers to the mountaintops, and guides lead visitors down through deep powder. Good legs and advanced technique are essential; so is a fat bank account. A week, including helicopter lifts, runs about...
...Lampoon, and they fail to meet it. Between the Hearst Corporation's reputation for intellectual journalism and Helen Gurley Brown's personal style in running her magazine, most of the potential areas in which a parody can play get squeezed out. The distance between an article like "The Bugaboo of Male Impotence" (in the October genuine Cosmopolitan) and "The Myth of the Male Orgasm" is not that great. The Lampoon carries a picture with its story showing a guy holding crossed fingers behind his back and tentatively approaching a girl waiting for him, in bed. The Cosmopolitan story...