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Word: philter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...Ulster and Connaught. In the next nine years, the O'Donnell and his tall gallo-glavses made Irish stew out of British armies sent against them. Then, while on a mission to the court of Spain. Red Hugh fell afoul of a British agent who accomplished with a philter what could not be done by force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lion in Marmalade | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...sorcerer, J. Wellington Wells, fails to be terrifying enough; he is much too amiable. In preparing the love philter, for example, he innocents in the tone in which one normally makes introductions; at the end (I must not disclose the end), he sounds as if he were going on vacation. Otherwise, Mr. Skolnik is splendid. His patter is palpitating, his dancing delightful...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: The Sorcerer | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...Thinking Man's Philter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 25, 1960 | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

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