Word: witching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emergency operation, ran after him to demand $10 as an examination fee. The appendix ruptured, Sahl recovered in a veterans' hospital, and the American Medical Association joined his repertory (his mildest joke about the medical world is that "the A.M.A. opposes chiropractors and witch doctors and any other cure that is quick...
...Scotland, a third witch cackles at NBC's color cameras as TV prop men bring Birnam Wood-root, leaf and branch-to Dunsinane. Along the brooding battlements of Yugoslavia's 12th century Lovrijenac fortress, the ghost of Hamlet's father spurs his son's revenge; deep in Russia, at Tashkent, the jealous Moor strangles the blameless Desdemona. A marble shard's throw from the Parthenon of Sophocles and Euripides, a Greek Shylock pleads, "Hath not a Jew eyes?" -while halfway round the world, black-jeaned Australian troupers tour the outback by bus, with a crown...
...worst temblor of the early Restoration was a delirium of anti-Catholic hatred. Although the frenzy was started by a supposed plot to murder the King, Charles tempered the witch hunt when he could, signed death warrants when he had to, and eventually restored order. Pearson tells the famed story of how, at the furor's height, a boisterous mob stopped a gilded carriage, thinking that Charles's French mistress, Louise de Keroualle, was inside. Nell Gwynn saved matters by sticking her head out and saying, "Pray, good people, be civil: I am the Protestant whore...
...Weather Bureau, she scurried to the footlights and said: "I don't know what the hell to do. It's one of those nights that's driving me nuts." After 15 minutes the clouds cleared away. "They'll think I'm a witch," said Minnie...
...safely visit some of his own mission stations because he was associated with the unpopular Monckton Commission to study the federation of Nyasaland and Rhodesia. In the course of his investigations, Dr. Shepherd also learned that one of his lay preachers and elders was on trial for murdering a "witch" and that the house of his church's education secretary had been stoned...