Word: bugbear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usually cooks a sample of everything beforehand, so the audience can see how the dishes ought to look, without waiting for them to cook or jell. On the air, Mrs. Lucas does it all over again, explaining her tricks in a no-monkey-business British accent. Her principal television bugbear is common to every kitchen: how to get everything ready at the right moment. Sometimes she has to gloss over the end of her TV bill of fare in a hurry; again, she may have to ad-lib with her eggbeater, in order to fill out the half-hour. "Food...
...first movie parks issued sometimes from staggered loudspeakers, sometimes from underground grilles, is now brought into the family car over small portable speakers. This device, with the help of a good windshield wiper, brings the show through clearly even during pelting rainstorms (though fog is still a bugbear); and some northern drive-in managers are dreaming that a new combination heater-speaker will enable them to keep going all winter...
...letter carried plans for the formation of a unit under his command which was to operate behind Union lines. Mosby's Tarn O'Shanter Rebels became a bugbear to the Union, a delight to Robert E. Lee, who cited Mosby oftener than he did any other Confederate officer...
Last week, while Bob McConnell was beaming over Polectron and Promika, politics-an old Aniline bugbear-rose up to plague him. His principal stockholder was scouting around for a new board of directors. The stockholder: Alien Property Custodian Leo Crowley, who owns 97% of Aniline. Talk was that the new board chairman would be Manhattan's razor-smart Victor Emanuel, a director of Standard Gas & Electric, of which versatile Leo Crowley is board chairman...
This equipment was first tried out on wax models of a human thigh. Afterward, when a surgeon used it to find a needle in a fat woman's shoulder, the tiny object, usually a surgeon's bugbear, was snagged in 47 seconds. Dr. Cole wishes the Army would give the method a trial, thinks it would be able to detect bullets or shell shards more quickly, cut down probing and cutting...