Word: magic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meyner for not accepting a labor plan for extending unemployment compensation, gave Grogan an unprecedented primary endorsement. On election night Meyner-Leaguer Williams was practically written off as solid, stolid John Grogan roared out of early-reporting Hudson County with an unexpected 72,000-vote plurality. Then the Meyner magic began to show itself. A swollen Democratic primary turnout (350,000) helped Williams carry 18 of the remaining 20 counties with sizable pluralities. Outside Hudson, labor's endorsement went sour; e.g., Williams carried heavily unionized Passaic County 7-1. Williams finally edged Grogan by a slim 15,000 votes...
Prime Minister Awolowo, describing as "wicked and utterly false" the rumor that Adelabu's death had been caused by black magic, ordered in federal police reinforcements, who used tear gas and gunfire to break up the raging mobs, killing two and arresting 296 of the rioters. At week's end. Ibadan was still under a state of emergency. But Adelabu was dead and buried, and neither riot nor witchcraft could bring him back alive...
...moon, in the imaginings of some, plays magic with men's minds, as it does with the wine-dark sea. It is the object of the hound's howl, the songsmith's loony tunes, the lover's gauzy dreams. But the moon itself is above all this, steadfastly gliding on its course, turning little more than half its surface to earth,* a safe 238,800 miles beyond the poets' and peasants' overtures. But not for long; last week, in one of the most extraordinary state documents ever issued by the White House...
Merry Andrew (M-G-M). Danny Kaye is like Aladdin's lamp. Only when an audience rubs him the right way can the genie come out. No audience, no magic; and the cold glass eye of the camera is worse than no audience to an exquisite empathist like Kaye. But even in the worst of his pictures-and Merry Andrew is considerably better than that-Comedian Kaye exhibits the common trait of the greatest clowns, who are not funny because of what they do but because of what they...
...Gone and gotten myself gravid," announces Isabel one day. For Owen the joy turns to horror as his wife becomes obsessed with the notion that her pregnancy has been forced upon her by the black magic of the land's fierce sensuality. She flees to a sorcerer and dies in abortion. For a year, Owen's "chaste maple syrup soul" is frozen. Then he attends a frenzied voodoo initiation, slips into an illicit affair, takes to drink, and the tropics claim another victim...