Word: bugaboo
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...motion granting powers of decree upon the Government: For the Government, 253; against, 16; whole Left Bloc abstained. The Radicals then raised the bugaboo of the votes not making a quorum and cries of "Resign" rent the air from the Left. The President of the Chamber ruled that a quorum was present and that the vote was in order...
...significant consideration is the noticeable inability of the Yale team to win away from home. Five of the Blue's six defeats have been administered on foreign courts. There is more than an outside chance that this bugaboo will pursue the Eli quintet tonight...
...Anglo-American friendship is not likely to be forgotten easily throughout the Commonwealth. Referring to the late President Harding's speech at Vancouver last July, Mr. Harvey said: "In that speech Mr. Harding referred to the interchange of residents between America and Canada and declared: ' The ancient bugaboo of the United States scheming to annex Canada disappeared from all our minds years and years ago. Heaven knows, we have all we can manage...
...time. The bill was allegedly born from the fear caused by the British project of a naval base at Singapore, which, part of the Dutch claimed, menaced their large East Indian Empire. Opponents of the bill, however, considered the need of economy to override every other consideration. Presumably the bugaboo of danger to the Dutch in the Far East has been laid to rest, especially since the British Government is willing to come to an agreement with the Dutch about Singapore...
...German Government has long warned the French that if they continued to occupy the Ruhr the Reich would become a prey to Bolshevism. The French Government always looked upon such an eventuality as a bugaboo. The German Government also said that they could not halt passive resistance, because public opinion was too strong. The French said: "Stop resisting before talking." The German Government ordered passive resistance to stop and in the place of Bolshevism there have arisen two dictators, one for Bavaria and the other for the Reich...