Word: bugaboo
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Negroes who pass are seldom detected; there are no telltale Negroid features that a generous mixture of Caucasian genes will not erase. Anthropologists and geneticists pooh-pooh the bugaboo of an atavistic black baby. If one of the parents is pure white, the baby cannot be darker than the darker parent; if both have Negro blood, the baby may be slightly darker than its parents but the chances are against...
...Some Japs were made sterile-a condition not necessarily permanent. Sterilization, which sometimes occurs temporarily among hospital patients treated by radiation, is one big bugaboo* of atomic energy. Tokyo stories that atomic energy was a "cure" for sterility (two older women were reported to be "like girls again" and eggless hens were said to be "rejuvenated" by radiation) were baseless...
When the Harlowmen leave the field tomorrow they will have conquered or been conquered by the "informal" bugaboo that has been trailing them all season. Uncertain as to their own potentialities, they will face a Yale team that has been paraded up and down the sports pages of the East. Perhaps the Crimson can take heart from the 10 to 3 victory of 1919, first year of formal football for Harvard after a three-year lapse during the last...
...bugaboo in television's dream of a coast-to-coast network is the formidable fact that the world is round. Until television beams are bent, reception will remain limited to line-of-sight distances which seldom exceed 50 miles...
Defending his world's three-cushion championship in New York last week, Hoppe was jerking rather than punching through with his deft cue-and that was all but fatal in this most precise of billiard games. Once before he had battled a similar bugaboo that made him fidget around too long, taking aim. He conquered that by counting softly, "One, two, three," shooting on three. This time, he relied on silent concentration...