Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vertical-walled cleft that leads to the famous dead city of Petra, a group of French travelers was trapped, and only two out of 26 survived. Jordanian authorities are anxious to keep the tourists coming, though, and the ancient Siq, reputedly opened by Moses with the flick of a magic rod, is the most dramatic approach to Petra. It would scarcely have seemed proper to install modern water-control devices...
...poetry because of his "imprecise" romanticism. But poetry is an art of masterpieces; a life's work of competent versifying has not the staying power of a single poem that lodges in the race's memory. Keats wrote four or five such poems, which possess that special magic without which a poem is merely verse. Although current poetic taste leans to the sinewy complexities of Donne and Eliot and Auden, Keats probably draws and has drawn more young readers to poetry than any other writer except Shakespeare...
...same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam...
Even if Harvard's less than stellar showing was not due solely to bad weather, bad breaks, and black magic, most seasoned observers concede that this is a building year for the Crimson sailing team and a few defeats are to be expected...
...much to hope that Staubach could rally the Middies now. Time was against him: the clock showed only 2 min. 5 sec., and Navy was 60 yds. away from pay dirt. The cards were stacked. But once again, Staubach began to work his magnificent magic. He scampered around right end for 16 yds. He passed for 14 more. He passed again for 12. He ran the middle for 15. And finally, with just 2 sec. left, he dropped back and fired one last pass to Halfback Ed Orr in the end zone. The gun went off-and the ball skidded...