Word: bugaboos
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...ever-present bugaboo of registration and big game football standing endless hours in lines--has been attacked this year, in an effort both to shorten the wail and give more efficient service...
...does Sophie worry about that bugaboo of smart shops-selling the same $500 dress to two women and having them both wear it to the same party. She tells her regular customers what their friends have bought. But occasional customers have to take their chances...
...only through acquiescence to untold humiliation and indignities, weak surrender of self-respect, and conventional fear of the old bugaboo, public opinion, that thousands upon thousands of servicemen received "honorable" discharges. In the face of hypocritical military caste, pseudo-respect demanded by threat of court-martial, and obedience to hopelessly incompetent commissioned officers, it is small wonder that men of sterling virtue and wonderful character received "bad conduct" discharges
Timing may be the bugaboo or the salvation for Pete Igo's Deacons for the T is a hard taskmaster, especially for the House squads, whose practice sessions are hampered by labs and afternoon classes. A scrimmage against Leverett last week and one against Adams yesterday found the Kirkland eleven alternately clicking and being smeared...
Still the major bugaboo is the question of elected versus appointed members, although off-the-record statements by Councilmen indicate that they are reconciled to cutting the number of appointed men severely in the new constitution. Even this obstacle, however, may be sidestepped. Traditional Council claims that appointed men are more efficient on specific tasks could be countered with a provision for use of non-elected men as members of certain committees. If representatives of both sides can go into every meeting with minds, unfettered, with effectiveness and democracy as their bywords, they will be able to produce, in only...