Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This Rough Magic, Stewart...
...speaking of Churchill to the House, after a slight nod to the empty seat of the Member for Woodford, Prime Minister Harold Wilson suddenly seemed touched with the Churchillian magic. "Where the fighting was hottest, he was in it," Wilson recalled, "sparing none, nor asking for quarter. The creature and possession of no one party, he has probably been the target of more concentrated parliamentary invective from, in turn, each of the major parties than any other member of any parliamentary age, and against each in turn he turned the full force of his own parliamentary oratory." Churchill, said Wilson...
...conductor's baton is the original magic wand. Give it to a broken-down piano player and presto!-up pops a shaggy-haired genius, a leader of men, God's gift to music...
...Returning to his cello, he found it like "a piece of furniture I had never seen before . . . Its import seemed pale in comparison to the reception of my conducting." Disturbed that "the little baton had such an easy victory over my Stradivari," he has resisted the spell of the magic wand ever since...
...would be well-nigh impossible, complained President Johnson during his long sessions with Budget Director Kermit Gordon at the LBJ Ranch, to squeeze Government spending next year to less than $100 billion. There was no magic in the arbitrary $100 billion figure. Having mentioned it, however, Johnson was able to display a flourish of frugality when he sent Congress a budget this week calling for $99.7 billion...