Word: wands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...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...
...happy young housewife, she can clean up a filthy kitchen with half a second's witchcraft or even help a neighbor's awkward kid to become a star Little League pitcher, as she was doing last week. She casts her spells not with a wave of a wand but with a twitch of her nose in a unique and peculiar manner that seems to be half allergy and half tic douloureux. Nowhere has the twitch worked better, apparently, than on the early reports of the ratings systems, for Bewitched is the surprising runaway champion...
Lyndon Johnson, that old wizard of Capitol Hill, seemed to have misplaced his wand last week. Twice the Congress refused to perform on cue, inflicting on Johnson his first major legislative defeats since taking office...
...road to Stan marched the "Popular Army of Liberation," a ragtag band of tribesmen carrying spears and an occasional captured rifle. But each rebel also carried a magic wand, which he fully believed would protect him from bullets, and the 1,000 Congolese soldiers and gendarmes who opposed the rebel force at Stanleyville last week shared that belief. By the time the angry, ragged rebels reached the city, all but 50 of its battle-weary defenders had thrown their arms into the Congo River and ducked out, many of them disguised as women...