Word: bugaboos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other committee members attacked the bugaboo of cirrhosis of the liver, managed to convince themselves that it was a greatly exaggerated hazard, because in a sampling at a big Paris hospital. 35% of the cirrhosis victims survived the disease. Somehow, this struck the committee as more significant than the fact that almost twice as many died...
...Bugaboo. Among Boston newsmen, the passing of an era was little mourned. The warrens on Washington Street-cluttered city rooms, wire-cage elevators, battered rolltop desks-symbolized the musty editorial policies of the papers. "We've tried everything else," said one Globeman. "Maybe a change of scenery will get us-and the rest of the papers -up off our duffs...
Boston editors are quick to admit their faults, but they put the blame on the old bugaboo of competition. With a population of more than 2,300,000, metropolitan Boston has six dailies: the staunchly Republican morning Herald (circ. 204,395) and evening Traveler (circ. 186,306) of bustling, bumptious Publisher Robert Choate; the morning Record (circ. 411,971) and evening American (circ. 176,318), both Hearst tabloids; the fusty, fence-straddling morning (circ. 225,162) and evening (149,070) Globes...
Lyndon Johnson worked fast and furiously to head off Big Bill. He got Arkansas' able Lawyer John McClellan to warn against writing hasty legislation on the floor, an old Senate bugaboo. And he got Jack Kennedy to promise to schedule three additional weeks of labor hearings, with the extra promise that additional labor-regulation bills will hit the floor by mid-June. The Johnson coalition held firm, voted down Knowland's amendments, but Knowland had won a victory for labor regulation by guaranteeing that the Senate will have to go on record this session on harder-hitting bills...
Bilateralism--the bugaboo of modern diplomacy--is finally receiving deserved, and even thoughtful attention in the State Department. With the problems of holding the European alliance together weighting heavy on its hands, the Department is understandably fearful of any influence which might weaken Western ties...