Word: incubus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...infant in a crowded lecture room," and said, "There can be no peace or comfort till he is out." And plenty of Congressmen would happily have offered up the 19th century version of talk-show rant. One Republican Representative denounced Johnson as "an ungrateful, despicable, besotted traitorous man--an incubus." Be grateful, Bill Clinton...
...disappointing, however, that many others forfeit their souls to the incubus of identity politics, supporting the side that favors them on one issue regardless of how they feel about the soundness of its total ideology. Wedding yourself to a whole questionable agenda just because one or two items serve your ends is not only irresponsible, it displays a profound lack of conscience...
...past year, Reebok has been selling a women's running shoe with a name--Incubus--that inspires fear rather than fleetness. Incubus is a mythical demon that rapes sleeping women. Reebok says no one has complained; in fact, the shoe has sold better than expected...
...cause. Reagan will come to forgive George Bush for raising taxes -- and to make sure he never does it again. Which means that Bush will be as weak in a second term as in the first. Realists, of course, see this ghost from the past as an incubus...