Word: witching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kukla, Ollie and Beulah Witch are guides on a tour of "swinging London," including a stop at Carnaby Street, a ride down the Thames and the changing of the Royal Guard...
...study of the woman and the creative forces that shaped her art. Beginning with the days when Graham performed tangos and apache dances in the Greenwich Village Follies, Leatherman traces her development through her early-American period (she is a descendant of Miles Standish) to her most recent The Witch of Endor, which reflects her current preoccupation with the themes of old age and death. Graham, reports Leatherman, is a voracious reader, pours through volumes of philosophy, poetry, mysticism and fairy tales, looking for a magic phrase like "cave of the heart" that will act as a catalyst...
Instead, the report represents an attempt to live with two constitutional rights: free press and fair trial. "We agreed in Committee that we should not be a party to any witch hunt," said Paul C. Reardon '32, Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and chairman of the Committee. "We were constituted rather to bring as detached and impartial a view as possible to what we were doing. We were considering the delicate balance between two ancient rights and we felt we should maintain a pure judicial approach to the accommodation between them...
...Beechcraft Baron light executive plane. And from the vast Kalahari Desert just outside of town, a blinding sandstorm that nearly ripped Botswana's new black-white-and-blue flag from the pole before it could be tied down. As fireworks illuminated the swirling sand clouds overhead, a tribal witch doctor swept back his cockerel headdress, tucked his baboonskin shirt between his knees, and flashed a mossy grin. "There will be rain," he predicted. "Everyone will...
Baseball players, like witch doctors, are a mighty superstitious lot. Take Gaylord Jackson Perry, 27, who pitches for the San Francisco Giants. Righthander Perry really likes steak, but his wife once gave him baked chicken before he went out to pitch. He won. So then it was chicken every workday. In the dugout before each game, he grabs the bat rack and gives it a shake-which puts the whammy on enemy batters. Before every inning, he runs out to the mound at full speed. Before a key pitch, he studiously turns his back to the plate and taps...