Word: bugaboos
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During the 30 days, fighting would continue. Thus the U.N. negotiators' bugaboo -a "de facto cease-fire"-would be avoided. But the effect might well be the same. Since the Eighth Army would prefer not to spend blood for territory that might later have to be given up, the U.N. would probably reduce its ground activity to token fighting, designed to hold its positions and keep down casualties. Either side, legally, could launch an offensive if it suited its purpose...
...little woman has sneaked up on her man from behind and blindfolded him with her bosom. Now 35, Partch has already drawn a man with as many as 19 fingers; he stamps out ugly, proboscidian heads as though he had gone berserk with a giant cookie-cutter. His special bugaboo: meeting his public. "They expect me to be weird, but I refuse, and they're obviously disappointed." But on the printed page he is still as weird as Price and Arno are wonderful...
...most distinctive and dramatic persons in the department is Henry D. Aiken who is at this best in the elementary courses taken by non-concentrators. His biggest bugaboo is the lack of organization of his material as a whole...
...confidence, the respect, and the privileges accorded to the distinguished scholars who have made the university a great seat of learning?" but an authorized spokesman for the Academic Senate made it clear that the faculty did not want Communists on the faculty. "We have patiently tried to settle this bugaboo of repudiation, but Regent Neylan has been unwilling to listen," Professor Malcolm Davisson stated, and Professor Wendell M. Stanley, Nobel prize-winning bio-chemist remarked, "Anyone who accepts dictates from Moscow has no more chance of getting on with the faculty here than Mickey Mouse...
...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...