Word: magic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comfortable, hyperhearty, all-male camaraderie, joshing and drinking and regaling one another with tales of assorted, exaggerated prowess. Women are outsiders; when social events are unavoidably mixed, the good ole boys cluster together at one end of the room, leaving wives at the other. The GOB'S magic doesn't work with women; he feels insecure, threatened by them. In fact, he doesn't really like women, except...
...highlight for Columbia in the opening minutes of the second half was its decision to go for a first down on a fourth-and-one situation from its own 40. The Lions succeeded, but on the very next play, in typical Columbia fashion, running back Bruce "Magic" Stephens lost his touch and fumbled...
...would also have to do well in the Mountain and the Border state areas, crack at least a couple of the Southern states, and capture a pair or more of the heavyweights, such as California and Pennsylvania, to reach the magic 270. It will take some doing, but Ford claims to be encouraged by the results of private polls in 18 "battleground" states, which include Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia and North Carolina, where he thinks he stands a chance of winning. An assessment of the Ford-Carter standings...
...cancellation will head off prospective price increases on appliances, air conditioners, mobile homes and other products. The Speed Queen division of McGraw-Edison Co., for example, dropped plans to raise the price of its washers and dryers by $10 to $20, and Magic Chef put off a proposed price hike on ranges. Whatever anti-inflationary benefits result could be short-lived, however. Few analysts are betting that steelmakers will not try for another boost before the year is out. Says one Wall Street expert: "The first half-hour that they feel the demand is there, they'll try again...
...both erotic and clinically detached. Jealousies arise; a small epidemic of paranoia breaks out as opening night approaches. Linking all this motion and emotion is the production itself-the constant grind of rehearsals, the inexorable piling up of bits and pieces into something with the potential for magic...