Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magic Numbers. Applause broke out again repeatedly as Ike took the offensive against critics of the Administration's proposed defense budget. The new defense program, he said, "allocates funds as justly and as wisely as possible among the three armed services." Then the President turned to the "fortress" theory of U.S. foreign policy, the up-to-date version of isolationism dear to many a Midwestern heart. Said he: "All of us have learned-first from the onslaught of Nazi aggression, then from Communist aggression-that all free nations must stand together or they shall fall separately." Rejecting the "partial...
...women of Germany who will find no husbands, whose husbands-to-be died all over the world . . . you are Germany's fairy godmothers. Only you can break the spell of evil magic. Only then will our people have a future, when it can again look upon virtuous and clean women...
...wars, revolutions and other dislocations of the 20th century. Britain's empire, too, is diminished, yet neither hot war nor cold war, nuclear nor social fission has tarnished the bright gold of the British crown. In an age that tends to reject ritual, scoff at virtue and call magic coincidence the crown that was set this week on the head of Elizabeth II was more generally accepted because better understood, better loved because more respected, than it had ever been before...
...20th century Socialists are more apt to raise their pints in ancient and loyal homage. The change has come about because British monarchs, since Victoria, have learned to express and affect what modern men call "the aspirations of the collective subconscious." Historian Walter Bagehot thought a better name was "magic," and held that too much light should not be let in on it. For the heart of the monarchy is mysticism; its sanctity is its life. Another mystical belief, that of a Britannic Renaissance, seized the coronation crowds. Wrote Poet Laureate John Masefield...
...Magic Numbers. "I most deeply believe that it is foolish and dangerous for any of us to be hypnotized by magic numbers . . . There is no given number of ships-no specific number of divisions-no special number of billions of dollars-that will automatically guarantee our security . . . Today three aircraft with modern weapons can practically duplicate the destructive power of all the 2,700 planes we unleashed in the great breakout attack from the Normandy beachhead . . . I [speak] to you . . . not only as your President but as one whose life has been devoted to the military defense of our country...