Word: bogeymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the bogeymen ousted visiting New England powerhouse Providence at the Country Club on Tuesday, the linksters were hoping to breeze past the Crusaders with relative ease. But the Crimson's hopes for a quick double win were crushed when a pair of 79's by Holy Cross stand-outs Pete Mondani and Tom Bagley gave the Crusaders a 405 team total, leaving the linksters one shot astern with 406. The Williams contingent, paced by Chip Audin's 79, rolled into the 19th hole in sole possession of last place...
...methodically as a prosecutor, she builds her case, attacking one by one the usual arguments in favor of prisons. First argument: prisons keep off the dark streets rapists, drug fiends, and other bogeymen of the American middle class. Nonsense, says Miss Mitford. In 9,000,000 crimes committed in a typical year, only 1½% of the criminals are imprisoned. Second argument: the threat of a prison sentence deters criminals. Miss Mitford cites contrary, though slightly equivocal evidence. Between 1961 and 1966, the penalty in California for assaulting a policeman with a deadly weapon rose from a minimum sentence...
Papa Doc is dead, and the title of President for Life has passed to his son Jean-Claude, 21. Under the comparatively benign rule of "Baby Doc," the activities of the dread secret police known as the Tontons Macoutes (Creole for bogeymen) have been curbed. The ostentatious display of military presence has been muted, although rifle-bearing police and militiamen can still be seen on the streets of Port-au-Prince, the capital. Even more important from the tourists' viewpoint Jean-Claude has extended a welcoming hand to foreign investors and visitors...
...Nixon's statistics nor Life's bright photographs can prove otherwise. Eight years of Eisenhower non-government have left an imposing backlog of business unfinished or never begun, and Mr. Nixon seeks to forestall any real action now with the shibboleth of "state and local initiative" and the bogeymen of "socialized medicine" and "Federal control of education." He points with pride to statistics showing Republican accomplishments in, for instance, school and hospital construction...
...meet the demand for hotel space, the government last month called in leaders of the local Italian and Lebanese communities and ordered them to foot the bill for two new hotels. The casinos too are once again raking in big money. More important, the dread Tonton Macoutes, or "bogeymen," who served as Papa Doc's private army of extortionists, are being relegated to the background. The warden of the notorious Fort Dimanche prison has been replaced, although an unknown number of political prisoners are still held there...