Word: bugaboo
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...Current bugaboo of the age is Overproduction. Confronted with this monsterword, hundreds of earnest committees throughout the land have been called upon for a solution. Some, driven to despair, if not insanity, have recommended the destruction of whatever there happened to be a surplus of. Such a remedy was the Federal Farm Board's recommendation - never followed - that cotton farmers plough under every third row (TIME...
...Robert T. Pell While M. Laval was reasonably sure that he could manage Josette, the Premier was quite sure that he could not manage the U. S. Press, a horrid BUGABOO. What to do? The answer last week was Little Bob Pell, first U. S. citizen ever appointed press contact man by a French Premier...
Browne finds an interesting analogy to Christianity under the Roman Empire. "Like Communism in the twentieth century, the new religion was made the bugaboo and the scapegoat of the age. . . . There was a frowardness about it, a loud insurgency, which made it seem a thousandfold its size. (The analogy with Communism is disconcertingly close.)" When Christianity became legal, then official, it began what Browne describes as a reign of terror. "Of all the virtues possessed by the Christians, tolerance was last and least." Under Julian the Apostate's empery came a brief interregnum. Even St. Augustine is flayed by Author...
...blue shirt of the thrifty American worker is perhaps the surest bulwark against the red shirt of Communism. A more liberal outlook on the part of the government toward social problems, backed by salutary neglect of Communist bugaboo, would tend to weaken the hold of revolutionary agitators America's industrial centers...
Ingenuity characterizes the efforts of the senior class of Grinnell College to secure for themselves positions after graduation. Apprehension, no doubt caused by the bugaboo Unemployment, has led them to advertise their talents in a booklet which they themselves have published. This is to be widely circulated among business firms throughout the middle West, and it contains the pictures, the vocational aspirations, and the collegiate records of the incipient crop of job applicants...