Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, his eyes glinting as he headed into the fight, Harry Truman spoke the magic words: "I believe that the man best qualified to be the next President of the U.S. is Governor Harriman of New York ... I know him, and you can depend...
...Kefauver abdication, he worked around the clock to corral Kefauver strays, wound up with some success in such farm states as Minnesota, Wisconsin. Iowa. Iowa Democratic Chairman Jake More, Kefauverite leader of the 48-man convention delegation, announced that he was switching to Harriman. And by some mysterious magic, Harriman's convention strategist, ex-National Chairman Frank McKinney, arrived at the conclusion that Harriman would still get 450 on the first ballot...
...when timing equipment failed, still got the last whisper of speed out of his streamlined NSU motorcycle. His 500 cc. engine churning up to 8,000 r.p.m., Herz whooshed back and forth on the measured mile at an average 210 m.p.h., the first time any cyclist had passed the magic 200-m.p.h. mark...
...have been trying to work out a "modern" interpretation of Socialist dogma to cope with the fact that Socialist theory is out of date and Karl Marx a political handicap. In a recent book called Twentieth Century Socialism, the "household troops" made some startling admissions. Nationalization of industry, the magic tool that was to transform society, had, they conceded, lost its magic: "There is no longer the confidence that a change in ownership is enough to insure that an industry is run on Socialist lines." Workers in nationalized mines find no greater joy or increased incentive in the knowledge that...
...part not so much for his resemblance to Higgins as for his charm on the boards. A boulder of a word, reduced to pebble-size by too much fingering, "charm" comes from the Latin for incantation and implies the use of magic. No one who has seen Fair Lady denies that Rex exerts a sort of magic-who else could growl: "Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers?" and make it a moving proposal of marriage-but few can agree on just where it lies...