Word: bugabooed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mice had good news for men this week. Reporting on the results of a six-year study of the effects of radiation on mice, Dr. John Frederick Spalding, 44, of the University of California's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, said that radiation may not be the genetic bugaboo it has been made out. In a nuclear world, man may survive, and even continue to look like man-whatever the mistakes of soldiers and diplomats...
Barzun's bugaboo is science-not just the Bomb, but all the works of science. The trouble began with Newton, whose mechanical laws of the universe reduced man to an abstraction. Later, Newton was abetted by Darwin, who said man was at the mercy of evolution, and Freud, who made man a prisoner of his instincts. According to Barzun, there are not two warring cultures, as set forth in C. P. Snow's famed thesis. The war is over and science has won. The humanities have succumbed. The spurious social sciences with their lifeless jargon dominate modern thought...
Some liberal Democrats even found themselves voting with the majorities against bipartisan moves to decrease the oil-depletion allowance, long a liberal bugaboo, and to eliminate some of the tax benefits that corporation executives now derive from stock options...
Despite this array of talent, the big bugaboo for the Crimson team may be Columbia's defense. They employ ball control and use a tight, aggressive man-to-man defense--the very formula which enabled Trinity to upset Harvard before vacation...
Lower Rates. Automation has increased coal's efficiency vastly, more than doubling the miner's daily output, to 15 tons. Cheaper residual oil has hurt coal but failed to take away all its markets. Atomic energy, coal's glamorous bugaboo, has turned out to be more expensive than expected, and seems no serious threat for the immediate future. And with the use of electricity in the U.S. rising about 7% a year, electric utilities last year used a record 192 million tons of coal's 420-million-ton production. But nothing has helped coal so much...