Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight Reconstruction, Klansmen decided to organize nationally. In Nashville, in 1867, they drew up a constitution, picked for their Imperial Wizard the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, and turned their talents to terrorism. Cloaked in their sheets and masks, they rode the countryside thirsting for violence. Anyone-white or black-who cooperated with Reconstruction was fair game for barbarism. White men who taught in Negro schools were lashed, and their schools were set afire and reduced to ashes. Negroes who refused to work for white men, or who seemed to flourish on their own, were thrashed with whips; some were...
...Simmons took 15 friends to the top of Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, built an altar on which he placed an American flag, a Bible and an unsheathed sword, set fire to a crude wooden cross, muttered a few incantations about a "practical fraternity among men," and declared himself Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
Then it became the RS-70-RS meaning reconnaissance strike. It would, its adherents claimed, not only be a bomber but a wizard observation aircraft. But Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was dead set against...
Strange Bedfellows. As an executive of Inter-Allied Petroleum Products, Rock Hudson awaits a promotion to head the firm's European office at $200,000 per annum. "All you need is one reasonably respectable wife," says Public Relations Wizard Gig Young, rabbeting in a plot gimmick designed to keep a flapdoodle comedy from collapsing in the first reel. Of course, Rock has a demiwife (Gina Lollobrigida) ready at hand in London. But Gina is neither respectable nor reasonable. She is a chichi freethinker, addicted to protest marches and The Arts. Rock had been splattered with so much paint...
...Little Hocus-Pocus." The self-styled "Wizard of Clubs," Paul Hahn, 46, is the world's acknowledged expert at "devious ways of hitting the ball." A teaching pro since he was 18, Hahn took a fling at the P.G.A. tournament circuit after World War II, quit after two years ("I wasn't making any money"), and went back to telling duffers the difference between a mashie and a niblick. To keep himself amused, he tried "a little hocuspocus" on the practice tee, and club members started showing up to applaud such antics as hitting two balls simultaneously...