Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shadow. It was a striving founded on Earl's passionate conviction that he was twice the man Huey was-and, ironically, he was, save for the vital inability to match Huey's inner fire, his failure to plumb the imagination of Louisianians with Huey's black magic...
...into Seoul, the first Japanese official to set foot on South Korean soil since the end of the war. Though students paraded, shouting, "We still remember your occupation," the official reception was cordial. Kosaka flew back to Tokyo, remarking, "I hope my visit will have an effect like a magic mallet [Japan's version of Aladdin's lamp] which produces inexhaustible treasures...
There has not been anything quite like it since the stereopticon delighted the nation's tasseled parlors with its "magic" ability to make the two-dimensional seem three-dimensional. After a sluggish start in 1958, stereophonic music has finally begun to catch the ear and the purse strings of the U.S. This year's sales of stereo phonographs are nearly double last year's (1,423,179 for 1960 to date; 757,710 for 1959) and stand at more than three times those of standard players (438,011 for the year of date). Fresh labels are flowing...
Kennedy in contrast, for all his magic with crowds and his keen-minded calculations during his run for the nomination, showed himself something of a bumbling battler during the post-convention session. If he had stayed in the background, letting Johnson maestro the show, the results in legislation might have been the same, but Kennedy would not have been politically hurt. As it was, he damaged his image as an efficient and forceful leader by needlessly exposing himself to public defeats, tying his own prestige to getting a doomed package of welfare legislation enacted...
...reaped by free-spenders of the company's money-is that the uninhibited use of high-priced food, liquor and gifts helps mightily in making a sale. Not so, says Clarence B. Randall, retired board chairman of Inland Steel, in a caustic attack on "The Myth of the Magic Expense Account" in the current Dun's Review. After 30 years in the executive suites of the nation's eighth largest steelmaker, Randall, 69, believes that "this orgiastic abuse of the expense account is a spectacular and alarming trend, participated in by enough companies and individuals...