Word: magic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time the President got into the second week of his 5,824-mile campaign trip, he was answering the crowd's enthusiasm with something of the old magic of 1952 and 1956. In Los Angeles and San Francisco he aimed over the heads of California's feuding and fussing G.O.P. Gubernatorial Candidate Bill Knowland and G.O.P. Senatorial Candidate Goodwin Knight, hit the point that the G.O.P. national record and national leadership were the best reasons for Californians to vote Republican...
Eight years after Aramco, the U.S.-owned Arabian American Oil Co., introduced into the Middle East the magic fifty-fifty formula of splitting production profits with the governments concerned, the numbers game no longer has its old magic. The formula was often broken while still technically honored-through side bonuses, generous rentals, air-conditioned Cadillacs or airplanes presented to sheiks. But on one matter the major oil companies of the world, which may compete at filling-station pumps but frequently join in partnership abroad, were adamant. They would split with Arab governments only at the production stage, would...
...ageless grace had a good excuse for the jitters: this was the first time he had put on a TV show of his own. But aging (59) Dancing Master Fred Astaire needed only to walk into camera range to demonstrate that he is still attuned to his old rhythmic magic, still in charge of his old, easy charm...
...first attempt fails (nothing comes easy to a Shute hero), and he returns exhausted to Pascoe's house in Buxton, broods over Pascoe's mementos, stumbles to Pascoe's bed in Pascoe's pajamas. He dreams and, through a not-too-convincing display of Shute magic, becomes transformed into the Johnny Pascoe of World War I: an ace in the air, a hellion on the ground, the lover and husband of Dancer Judy Lester. Clarke's next dream carries him, as Johnny Pascoe, through the years between the wars, disillusionment and divorce from Judy...
...converted 50 singles into doubles by adding divans that one newspaper described as "apparently designed for dwarfs." Delhi's barmen, in need of practice after two years of prohibition, suddenly found themselves back in business -but only for one week, and to serve only those who wore the magic silver lotus lapel badge. Those who wore it were the 1,000-odd delegates and guests at the 13th annual meeting of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), gathered in the air-conditioned comfort of Delhi's modern House...