Word: hocus-pocus
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...population has the protection of full coverage. President Eisenhower would like to see health insurancies pay a larger part of the health bill, and he urges that all citizens purchase some insurance immediately. Insurance companies would reject no-one as a "poor risk" under the Administration medical bill. Fiscal hocus-pocus called "reinsurance" will enable them to sell policies even to the victims of cancer, diabetes, and polio-at stupendous rates, of course, because of the high risks involved...
...ball changes hands so often that kicking takes on an exaggerated importance. Downfield, a punt receiver is allowed no fair catches, gets only the dubious protection of a five-yard safety zone until the ball is caught. Long run-backs, as a result, are few and far between. Hocus-Pocus. Despite the warm (70°) Toronto weather, last week's game was a satisfactory curtain raiser for the Canadian football season. Both teams cut loose with some of the spectacular football that home-town fans take for granted. One interception resulted in a triple lateral: Al Pfeifer brought...
...Hocus-Pocus. Now it was Malenkov's turn. He may have achieved his victory by means of-of all things-an intricate debate on genetics. This week, linking fact with plausible conjecture, the New York Times's Foreign Correspondent Cyrus L. Sulzberger put together the story. In the summer of 1948, 700 Soviet biologists met in conference to discuss solemnly the theory of Lysenkovism. Geneticist T. D. Lysenko contended that "acquired characteristics"-those attributed to environment-can be inherited. This meant that Communist education could more or less create a new species of human being, and then transmit...
...from high school. His 16 years in vanity publishing have taught him that the business can be both legitimate and profitable. Exposition gives its writers a contract whose terms are frank and clear, sends out review copies and news releases, tries, like all publishers, to build publicity and promotional hocus-pocus (autographing parties, press interviews, radio appearances, etc.). For about $2,000, Exposition will give an author some 2,000 copies of a fairly well printed book, try to sell it to bookstores and to lists of friends and prospects supplied by the author...
...enjoyed your article on Fulton Sheen. He portrays Christian Truth in his programs only because he omits the relics, superstitions, traditions and nonBiblical hocus-pocus of the Roman Church...