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Word: magic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope because I, the number one enemy, was "under control." By the way, the "liberal" policy in Algeria stated by the President in his Constantine speech entirely coincides with the reforms plan I put together myself when I was Governor of Algeria in 1955. Now, by what curious magic should this plan 1)0 liberal in one case and reactionary in the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...Black Magic...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Genet's Deathwatch in New York | 11/21/1958 | See Source »

Ohio: If Republican Incumbent C. (for nothing) William O'Neill, 42, ever had a chance for reelection, he muffed it when he came out in favor of Ohio's right-to-work referendum. For patient, politically magic Mike Di Salle, 50, onetime chief of Harry Truman's Office of Price Stabilization, who challenged O'Neill unsuccessfully two years ago, that cinched it. Counting on a heavy labor vote in highly industrial Ohio, as well as widespread dissatisfaction with Governor O'Neill, Di Salle was not disappointed. His winning margin: 3 to 2. Right-to-work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: The Governors | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...mutual understanding improves, they are delighted to find that a nidilniihi, like other native diagnosticians, is more likely to refer patients direct to the clinic, bypassing the chishiji and similar sings. The medicine men, more and more, are admitting themselves to PHS hospitals to get white man's magic for illnesses which, they recognize, they cannot cure themselves. The Many Farms clinic itself has a dual tie with the divinities of healing: its Hippocratic directors were careful, when it was dedicated 2½ years ago, to have two Navajo medicine men conduct elaborate good-omen rituals. It looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of Mary Grey-Eyes | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...could miss for a moment that for all her arm-flinging antics, Dorothy can really play. There are those who insist that she is not the best female jazz pianist in the U.S., but while it soaked up her lyric black magic last week the crowd at the Embers would have been willing to argue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Wild but Polished | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

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