Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early 20s, Nelson started packaging a pinch of vrilium inside an ordinary two-inch-long brass cylinder. Popularly called "The Magic Spike," the cartridge was sold to people suffering from a variety of painful diseases. Nelson was always happy to explain how it worked: when the cylinder was attached to the lapel (or hung around the neck), there were "emanations" into the atmosphere for a distance of 20 feet, discouraging all sorts of disease germs. Meanwhile, the vrilium was supposed to "emanate" inward, restoring the buyer's sick body cells to normal...
Bapa v. Bunya. There are other superstitions, including the suea yant, a red jacket enscribed with Cambodian letters , Which is guaranteed to protect the wearer "against all harm so long as he has faith in the magic jacket. Seven lucky possessors of these jackets in one of Bangkok's northern suburbs recently took advantage of their invulnerability to terrorize the neighborhood. A fortnight ago, some 50 of their fed-up neighbors took axes and dropped in on the seven to test their magic garments. Before the cops arrived three of the seven were dead. But a brisk demand...
...Broadway. Meanwhile, it was busy doing homage to a meteoric new playwright, who, like Eliot, had turned the trick of making poetic drama a sizzling box-office hit. A year ago, few even in London literary circles had heard of Christopher Fry. Last week the name was marquee magic that packed two theaters with customers of all brow heights. The plays: Fry's Venus Observed, produced, directed and acted by Sir Laurence Olivier...
...black financial magic by which governments raise or lower the value of their currencies amid incantations of economic mumbo-jumbo is apt to baffle all but the most sophisticated spectators. But last week the government of "backward" Indonesia, whose guilder was badly inflated, devised an ingeniously simple new method that anyone could grasp, for letting the air out of their currency. Indonesian Finance Minister Sjafruddin Prawiranegara ordered Indonesians to get out their scissors and cut in half their paper money above five guilders...
This means that since March 16, when the shells first began to navigate the river, Bolles has had to juggle permutations and combinations like an insurance statistician to try and find the magic octet from a field of better than 40. A first boat lineup will probably be ready before the end of spring vacation practice...