Word: magics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scientific research. In 1963, Norris' engineers came up with the biggest "number cruncher" of all, the 6600. But before Control Data could put it on the market, IBM announced that it would introduce a giant computer of its own, the System 360 Model 90. Such is the magic of IBM's name that a word from Armonk was more persuasive than a machine from
...life. It was nothing to compare with the long, agonizing readjustment that would follow. World War II, but the Spring of 1919 saw dozens of Crimson editors trying to reconcile the more or less carefree undergraduate life with the organized brutality they had just escaped. As the adjustments were magic, and as new blood was added to the staff, the paper gradually improved in news and editorial quality, but the first issues of that term were rarely up to pre-war standards...
...committed forces to Korea. Alben Barkley, the mellow Kentuckian Senator and Vice President, was heard to rip into a Democratic colleague who kept attacking Republican leaders. Night after night Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson would go down to Eisenhower's White House breathing partisan fire, but something magic always happened when the old General uncorked the bourbon and told the Texans how much he admired them and needed them. Back on the Hill, those two passed the legislation that Ike wanted and a little extra for themselves. And it was about that time that Lyndon Johnson brought up some...
...setup confers enormous power on the COLC's Dunlop. He has frank contempt for "magic numbers"; he once called the idea that all wage boosts should conform to a single numerical standard "hogwash." He prefers to weigh each case individually and relies on head-knocking by private negotiation rather than fiat by issuing orders...
...Children who were robbed of the magic of their childhood by a man-made disaster are now approaching the highly sensitive and emotional years of adolescence without arms, without legs and, in some cases, without organs...