Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans traditionally underestimate the British power, but it takes no wizard to predict safely the winner at White City Stadium in London today. Harvard and Yale will even the series...
Feelings are running high. An intense rivalry has developed between the two schools in the last year. At Penn, Psychological warfare, a brutal training program, and a wave of rowing contraptions like "The Wizard," a shell electronically wired to indicate how much strength each oarsman is applying on each stroke, are all aimed at one thing: beating Harvard...
...reign as figureheads; they like to rule too. Resentment over the Greek King's penchant for mixing in politics boiled over at the start of World War I, when the first Constantine exerted his influence on behalf of Greek neutrality. Constantine was forced into exile by a Cretan political wizard named Eleutherios Venizelos, and the feud went on for decades. The monarchy's popularity plummeted even further when George II backed the military dictatorship of General John Metaxas, who ruled Greece from 1936 until the Germans and Italians overran the country...
...Karajan's standards for a director of any opera that he conducts: Karajan himself. And so, for the production of Wagner's Die Walküre last week at Salzburg's new Easter Festival, Karajan had no trouble getting both assignments. After all, the creator, financial wizard and guiding spirit of the entire festival was Karajan...
...thing, he has always been a winner, and his majority in last fall's gubernatorial election (his third ) was larger than ever. For another, Romney has gained the reputation of an apolitical, progressive business wizard who solved Michigan's fiscal problems. Aided by the economic boom of the past few years, Romney has obliterated his state's financial debt even though his own budgets increasingly exceed those of his Democratic predecessors...