Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ousted from power in a feud with Evita Perón about the time the terms of trade finally turned against Argentina, Miranda retired to self-imposed exile in Uruguay. But Perón himself never forgot the old trader he had once hailed as "a man with a magic wand that turns everything to gold." Last December, several months after Evita's death, Miranda flew to Buenos Aires for a conference with the chief. Recently, as Miranda continued to shuttle back & forth between Montevideo and Buenos Aires, Argentines heard that he was about to be recalled to boss...
...range which will preserve even the newest bride from cooking disasters. An "electronic-eye" thermostat, controlled by the heat of the cooking pan, automatically turns off the burner when the water boils away or the food begins to scorch. Westinghouse's new refrigerator has a "magic door" which pops open at a finger touch...
...Magic & Machinery. It is barely 50 years since Britain conquered the Ashantis; in that time, Gold Coasters have spanned centuries of progress. African girls, not long ago bartered for cattle, are studying to become doctors and nurses. Bulldozers are digging the foundations for a 500-bed hospital close to the spot where the British, in 1896, found a huge brass pan that was used to collect the blood from human sacrifices...
This incongruous overlap of civilization and savagery, magic and machinery, makes many Britons doubt whether the Gold Coast is ready to rule itself. When African political parties march past the European Club in Accra, members raise their voices and go on discussing polo and trade as if the apparition outside were in hopelessly bad taste. Yet Britain's Colonial Office takes the Gold Coast dead seriously. Major James Lillie-Costello, the monocled press officer who handles Nkrumah for the British government, treats the Prime Minister as if he were Winston Churchill, manages to inject half a dozen "Sirs" into...
...lustrously blonde playmate. On the stage, Tinker Bell has usually been depicted as a flicker of light. (In the earlier movie version, she was an automobile headlight bulb decorated with tinsel, and manipulated with a fluttery movement on the end of a fishing pole.) Through the magic of the animated cartoon, she is a bosomy little vamp, not much bigger than a dot of light, who flits about enchantingly with a silvery tinkle of bells in a sprinkle of golden pixie dust...