Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into landlords' agents. Once, riding through a mountain glen, she came upon police guarding four young prisoners. Said she, in a voice of authority: "Let them go now; I take full responsibility," and waved the prisoners away. The peasants called her a Woman of the Sidhe, one with magic powers. Her fame spread. An elderly English liberal baronet followed her to a Donegal cottage, thrust a diamond pendant into her hand as he unsuccessfully proposed. Said Maud: "I thank you for the gracious thought, and your kindness shall not be wasted. This jewel will save this family from eviction...
...Magic Formula. "Classical Reform," he said, "detached God from Israel, thinking that it could achieve a greater measure of sanctity by concentrating on the idea of God . . . The opposite was the result . . . We have only succeeded in breaking the magic formula which, throughout the centuries, served effectively to maintain the Jewish people as well as Judaism , . . We now realize that if our Jewish education is to be effective, it must begin with the Jewish people, [and] it must include Torah...
...must examine the mysterious proposition that there is some magic dust that makes people go into battle at the bidding of the Soviet Union," he said...
...hour token general strike during which labor was to hold a mass meeting in front of the Casa Rosada (Argentina's White House). Perón and everyone else knew that the workers would be thinking, "This had better be good." Whether he could still work his oldtime magic over the capital crowds remained to be seen; he had never needed it more...
Westward Ho? The magic solution offered everywhere in Japan for these woes is resumption of trade with Communist China and Russia. Most Japanese industrialists, and many government officials, say quite frankly that they intend to do so as soon as they can in order to find new markets and sources of cheap raw materials. Actually, reopening trade with China would probably be a disillusioning experience for the Japanese. Before World War II, Japan was able to dictate terms to the Chinese; now the positions are reversed...