Word: wands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baseball solved a strike in two days, with Commissioner Peter Ueberroth shyly accepting most of the credit. To fuzzy suggestions that he somehow ought to ride to a similar rescue, Football Czar Pete Rozelle responds, "I don't think anyone can go in and wave a magic wand and have it ; settled." Sighing glumly, he adds, "I'm not a knight on a white horse...
Because the department centers on the issue of race, having a mixed student and faculty composition is essential to a well-balanced approach to the field, professors and students say. "It is as if God sat down with a magic wand and made classes 50 percent Black and 50 percent white, with a slight preponderance of women," says Sollors, who came to Harvard four years...
Young adds that he would like to make the Union a lot bigger and add more sound-proof practice rooms, more free space to accommodate the changing interests of freshmen, more quiet space and more eating space. But, lacking a magic wand and the necessary funds, Young does not see a way to accomplish these changes...
Joseph was asked if there were any wild animals close by. He did not carry a spear just now, only a thin wand of olive wood. The spear was not necessary at this time of day between bomas, Joseph explained. People passed back and forth; the lions would stay away...
...could have a magic wand, I would be for a compulsory system," says Moskos. That would raise serious questions. Congress has the right to raise armies, but the Constitution does not give it the right to conscript people to work in civilian occupations. The White House, along with many conservatives and libertarians as well as liberals, opposes national service on the ground that it would be an unnecessary intervention by the Government into people's lives. Some wonder how a program could be enforced. "What are you going to have?" asks Alan Weisberg, a youth-employment consultant in Oakland. "Criminal...