Word: magic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hands. The Mazeroski magic with glove and ball has the whole league beguiled. Even "No Hands" Mazeroski himself can produce no practical explanation of his liquid legerdemain at second. "I don't really consciously even throw to first base," said he. "I just throw. I guess after you've done it a few times you just naturally know where first base...
...view of mystery shrouds the rabbit symbol. Men link rabbits with magic hats and lucky feet--the unknown and the unexpected. The cartoon of the lady and the rabbit-psychiatrist ("You said a moment ago that everybody you look at seems to be a rabbit. Now just what did you mean by that, Mrs. Sprague?" bears directly on this issue. The lady fears sex. She sees all men as potentially sexual creatures, and confuses this fear with the rabbits who so flagrantly violate her moral standards. The psychiatrist himself becomes a rabbit, for he shares with the beast the secret...
...Inheriting the mantle of party leadership just before the death of Italy's great postwar statesman. Alcide de Gasperi, in 1954. Fanfani reorganized and rejuvenated the party from the ward level up. For this year's campaign -the first the party has had to fight without the magic name of De Gasperi -Fanfani organized 120,000 Christian Democratic militants into cells of three people each (one woman, one young man, one cell chief). Student organizations, trade-union groups, para-religious organizations of the Roman Catholic faithful knocked on doors, organized dances, showed documentary films depicting De Gasperi...
...exuberant shout or sink away to a foggy, muted-trumpet whisper. Occasionally, as she sweeps her almond eyes over the ringside tables, she lets flutter a throaty, tongue-trilling sound that suggests nothing so much as the invitation of an amorous cobra. Within the framework of That Old Black Magic she sings a medley of songs -Hold Him, Joe; Matilda; It Ain't Necessarily So; When the Saints Go Marching In -intersperses them with barefooted, hip-shaking dances. In her finale, she strips to fringed pantaloons and wriggles about the stage in a dance that starts the drummer shouting...
...they wandered through the world with their begging bowls, dispensing sacred teaching, sage advice and examples of the unworldly life. Inevitably another breed of sadhu arose that was anything but straight. Trading on the enormous prestige of the holy men, these daubed wanderers move from village to village dispensing magic charms and quack cure-alls and mulcting the credulous peasants. Today at least 75% of India's 8,000,000-odd sadhus are racketeering fakes. Last week something was being done about it for the first time. At Rishikesh, a Hindu holy place on the Ganges about 140 miles...