Word: bugaboos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least as badly as Dewey's fiasco last year. The GOP will have to come up with a new program and new managers if it hopes to get back into power at all. It will have to stop harping on the welfare state, which is evidently a much overrated bugaboo. It will have to turn up some candidates whose virtues extend farther than smooth, untroubled faces and innocuous minds...
...with Broadway regulars for a place in the summer sun. But, being more commercial than quaint, many a summer playhouse will depend more than ever on big names to draw vacationing theatergoers. Some stars will tour singly, others with supporting players or a whole "package" show-the growing bugaboo of resident troupes...
...call communism a bugaboo when ten countries with a population of over 300 million people have been overrun by the Commies," Dorgan cried. "I can't understand why we haven't got more Americans," he went on, pounding the table. "Look at men like Alger Hiss, a bright boy from Harvard Law School who turned more than 60 State Department documents over to the Russians...
...million dollars to the states for elementary and secondary schools. Each state was to get a minimum of five dollars for each child; and the poorer states were scheduled to get more--up to nearly 30 dollars per head in Mississippi. Taft figured that he had the biggest bugaboo whipped--federal "dictatorship" in the little red schoolhouse. He said, in debate: "The only function of the federal government would be that of an auditor.... It will have no more to say about the exact method by which education shall be administered...
...band returned to base camp in August with six first ascents behind6ANDREW GRISCOM '49 scales Pidgeon Spire in the Bugaboo Mountains of British Columbia...