Word: wands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stowell (field event coach Ed) once again waved his magic wand," head coach Bill McCurdy said yesterday...
...starvation is not a proper-or, indeed, safe-tactic for shedding a mere 10 to 20 lbs. But for massively obese people, starvation dieting does offer new hope. As former Superheavyweight Craig Hillier puts it, "It's as if God came down and touched me with a magic wand...
Playin' with my magic wand...
CHRISTMAS EVE MASS. Burlesquing the season's secular spirit, a procession of toys emerges from the sacristy; Teddy bears, dolls and soldiers move up the center aisle. Right in the middle of it all, decked out in spangles and waving a glowing magic wand, is the Blue Angel -Father Quinlan, of course. Santa Claus (an assistant priest) joins the march as it heads back toward the altar. Quinlan ducks out, then reappears in festive liturgical vestments, mercifully putting Christ back into Christmas...
...trend toward coeducation had developed--and peaked in 1968 with the admission of women to arch-rivals Yale and Princeton--the sudden and official transformation of Radcliffe women into Harvard women, as if by the stroke of a wand (and not by the vote of the Corporation), seemed imminent...