Word: bugabooed
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...against white opponents. Even more significant in a sense were two Negro defeats. In the Black Belt's Wilcox and Greene Counties, where Negro voters outnumber whites, incumbent sheriffs-both white, both considered fair-minded law officers-faced Negro candidates for the first time. Far from affirming the bugaboo of Southern whites that "black votes mean black government," Negroes in both counties helped re-elect the white men to office...
Except for some rather obvious police shadowing that had to be put up with in Rumania, our people suffered no pressures, were allowed to work freely for the most part. Perhaps the worst experience they encountered was that old Balkan bugaboo of night driving with the lights now off, now on. The trick is to switch the lights off and use those of the approaching car. Trouble is that the approaching car is playing the same game and, as Rademaekers recalls, "cars roll blindly at each other for sickening seconds before flicking their lights on again...
Another major bugaboo of the committee was its fear of Red Chinese intervention. Taylor pointed out that one reason Peking entered the Korean War was its uncertainty about America's exact aims and its own real fear that Manchuria would be invaded. In the present conflict, he said, the U.S. has clearly stated that "it is not our objective to crush or destroy North Viet Nam" and that it is not seeking an unconditional surrender-"an Appomattox, a Yorktown, a ceremony on the battleship Missouri...
...snapped Arizona's John Rhodes, chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee. "Why should we have to take the oath every time we come up to bat?" Other G.O.P. congressional leaders agreed. On the road back from the 1964 Republican National Convention, many party chieftains have exorcised the bugaboo of "extremism." Yet when the party's nine-month-old coordinating committee met in Washington last week, moderate Republican Governors, led by Idaho's Bob Smylie, insisted that the leadership should collectively and specifically condemn the John Birch Society...
...FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY, says Thorwald, is the most troubled of the detective disciplines. The principal problem: chemists have developed new poisons more rapidly than toxicologists have developed methods of detecting them. At the beginning of the 19th century, the big bugaboo was arsenous oxide (also known as "inheritance powder"), a poison that caused symptoms indistinguishable from those of cholera. In 1832, a simple method was developed to detect the arsenic in a cadaver. But by then the chemists had discovered the vegetable alkaloids-morphine, strychnine, cocaine, nicotine, quinine and so on. These poisons seemed to dissolve without a trace...