Word: pocus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson and Art Valpey today's game poses a dual mission. First, and most important, the mission of snapping back from the nightmarish disaster of Palmer Stadium; and secondly, the mission of continuing to brew the hocus-pocus that has befuddled Brown for so long a time...
...dreadfully sentimental. What is worst about his writing is that he has uncertain taste; he never knows when to stop. He begins with a moving description of Noah's pain at coming across anti-Semitism in the army and then collapses into a completely incredible bit of hocus-pocus in which Noah fights ten big soldiers, one by one, gets beaten up and sent to the hospital and is never helped by any officer in the Army camp. While there was anti-Semitism in the Army, it never resembled Shaw's paranoiac version of it. A good, calloused...
...Filth. Through the super-secret hocus-pocus common to all police states, an old friend put me in touch with a member of the Paraguayan underground, an attractive girl of about 28. "Lola" (that is not her name) is a member of the Movimiento Revoludonario Febrerista, a militant, left-wing organization corresponding to Peru's APRA...
...Michigan's hocus-pocus offense worked well enough to hurdle hardy Illinois, 14 to 7, thanks largely to nifty, shifty Halfback Bump Elliott, and a pass by Bob Chappuis (TIME, Nov. 3) that set up the game-winning touchdown...
...limb on which he had long been impudently perching, Stabler gibed: "Get yourself a compass, a divining rod, walk backward through a dark alley at three minutes after midnight and everything will be made clear. The first of them who comes out honestly and admits that the hocus-pocus of the Dow theory made him miss nine weeks of the bull market will deserve a seat on the Stock Exchange, upholstered in bearskin...