Word: magic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...popularity to offset the business community's concerns. A majority of Americans seem willing, so far, to give him the benefit of ihe doubt. Carter also benefits from a post-Viet Nam, post-Watergate, post-Richard Nixon phenomenon: lowered expectations. Few Americans feel that a President can work magic or cure all ills. "That may be a plus," says Carter Pollster Pat Caddell. At the moment, it may be one of the biggest that Jimmy Carter has going...
...last words of Ada - "much, much more." Whether by scheme or coincidence, that novel flew like Zeno's paradoxical arrow. Part 1 took up half the book. Part 2 was half of one remaining half, etc., ad infinitum. Perhaps this was Nabokov's metaphor for the inexhaustible magic of memory. Field, too, stoically accepts the fact that he can never quite reach his target. Yet he still manages to track the flight of genius...
...Nixon's impeachment, Mee nonetheless flew to California for several days of ultimately pointless discussions. The meetings with Haldeman were touchingly anticlimactic. The man looked scrubbed, healthy, pleasant, infuriatingly unscarred. He showed Mee his annotated books about Watergate; with relentless precision, Haldeman had used green, yellow or red Magic Markers to underline passages according to their degree of veracity...
...hold the plasma and keep it from touching the chamber walls. The temperature of the plasma is raised closer to fusion temperatures by passing electric currents and shooting beams of high-energy atoms through it. With these techniques, tokamaks have come the closest of any magnetic device to the magic combination of confinement time, temperature and plasma density necessary to sustain fusion. At the Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, scientists regularly heat the plasma in the Princeton Large Torus until it glows like an ectoplasmic bagel and have just achieved a density of 1014 particles per cubic centimeter, a confinement...
...easy on the fats, will sustain a runner perfectly well. Marathoners have taken to loading up on carbohydrates for several days before a race, to pack their bodies with glycogen, but since it takes about 20 miles to run through a normal supply of glycogen, spaghetti has no special magic for short-winded strivers...