Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...events in Africa today [March 13] are not a new chapter in human history, and any attempts to depict them as such are unjustified, egoistical and malicious. Why should Africa be expected to possess a magic wand that the rest of the world never...
...Hurrah for former Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy. Respect is the magic word. And respect, sadly enough, comes to most mentalities through rough self-interest policies. Amazing? Yes, but unfortunately true...
...Jawaharlal Nehru's home state of Uttar Pradesh, the legislative assembly was in turmoil. A member had just reported that a religious ascetic had performed a temple rite to the Hindu goddess of destruction, Durga, in order to take Nehru's life by magic. In New Delhi, a Socialist deputy was hooted down in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) by angry Congress Party members for asking: "Is it democratic for an ailing Prime Minister with a shaky, inaudible voice and trembling feet to reply to questions?" Through the uproar, a waxen, drowsy figure sat hunched over...
...tenderest feet were firmly planted on a windblown, grassy highland. Off in the distance gleamed San Francisco Bay; beyond it, looming out of the sea itself, was Mount Tamalpais, its summit aswirl with purpling, swiftly scudding clouds. The hikers' blisters were forgotten now, the land had worked its magic; there were no newcomers any more...
...actually has not. On the fifth day of her cycle, when a woman's system would normally be building up hormones to promote ovulation, she takes the first of her progestin pills, and she takes one daily for the next 20 or 21 days. By some biochemical magic not yet understood, the progestin makes it impossible for a follicle to ripen and spill out an ovum. It also prepares the lining of the uterus for menstruation. By the 25th or 26th day, when all chance of ovulation, and therefore of conception, during that cycle has passed, the woman stops...