Word: hocus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present practice of different list prices in different areas. But carmakers are not yet ready to go that far. Says retired Rear Admiral Frederick Bell, executive vice president of N.A.D.A.: "We think the Monroney bill is a step in the right direction of taking the razzle-dazzle and hocus-pocus out of auto pricing...
...Even the hocus-pocus of Madison Avenue wags cannot conceal the charm of this seething French thriller. Forget the yellow shirt and the unsigned promise. In the vein of a sardonic O. Henry, Diabolique sometimes is ghoulish and gross, and is never very subtle. The ending, quite as startling as the man in the yellow shirt had you believe, induces a feeling of mental ineptitude. You wonder whether you weren't paying attention at the critical moment; perhaps it's because the director, Henri-Georges Clouzot, is simply a very clever...
...population has the protection of full coverage. President Eisenhower would like to see health insurancies pay a larger part of the health bill, and he urges that all citizens purchase some insurance immediately. Insurance companies would reject no-one as a "poor risk" under the Administration medical bill. Fiscal hocus-pocus called "reinsurance" will enable them to sell policies even to the victims of cancer, diabetes, and polio-at stupendous rates, of course, because of the high risks involved...
...ball changes hands so often that kicking takes on an exaggerated importance. Downfield, a punt receiver is allowed no fair catches, gets only the dubious protection of a five-yard safety zone until the ball is caught. Long run-backs, as a result, are few and far between. Hocus-Pocus. Despite the warm (70°) Toronto weather, last week's game was a satisfactory curtain raiser for the Canadian football season. Both teams cut loose with some of the spectacular football that home-town fans take for granted. One interception resulted in a triple lateral: Al Pfeifer brought...
...Hocus-Pocus. Now it was Malenkov's turn. He may have achieved his victory by means of-of all things-an intricate debate on genetics. This week, linking fact with plausible conjecture, the New York Times's Foreign Correspondent Cyrus L. Sulzberger put together the story. In the summer of 1948, 700 Soviet biologists met in conference to discuss solemnly the theory of Lysenkovism. Geneticist T. D. Lysenko contended that "acquired characteristics"-those attributed to environment-can be inherited. This meant that Communist education could more or less create a new species of human being, and then transmit...