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Word: pocus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this time, near the very end of the book, these topics on longer seem appropriate with the mood set from the beginning, a navel in high relief. Overall, the book does not fulfill its original stated mission, but reduces itself to an entertaining article on sexual hocus-pocus...

Author: By Susan S. Lee, | Title: Entertaining Psychological Babble Implicates Women in Intercourse | 5/20/1994 | See Source »

...Bernard Gottschalk, who is one of four chief scientists at the Harvard cyclotron, says Warren's study is likely "hocus pocus...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Warren Tested Workers at Harvard Cyclotron for Radiation Exposure | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

...nervous breakdown. She rebounded into a saner life, with a doting husband and an adored daughter, and the movie stardom that had previously eluded her. But her past three films ! have fallen this side of blockbuster. Scenes from a Mall swallowed her and Woody Allen whole; Hocus Pocus was a moderately popular summer farce; she turned down the original Sister Act script to make the epic musical For the Boys, which sank expensively, though it featured superb Bette renditions of Stuff Like That There and Every Road Leads Back to You. Perhaps she was hurt by that failure; she sings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette, Better, Best | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

Skeptics say such conclusions are hocus-pocus, claiming and that it's easy to boast predictive success after the fact. But Shea and others stand behind such astrological predictions and say the stars' arrangement during a person's birth has a lifelong impact on the person...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: THE TRUTH IS IN THE STARS | 4/10/1993 | See Source »

...Hocus Pocus--by magicians Parker Swan,Jim Raino, and Christopher Bell. Firehouse Center,Market Square, Newburyport. Thursday, Feb. 20 at 2and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everywhere But Harvard | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

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