Word: witched
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...Massey's barbershop at 3306 Main Street, Kansas City, a big, muscular man, generously daubed with powder and witch hazel, eased himself out of a barber's chair. He had just had a haircut, shave, shampoo, scalp massage and shoe shine-"the works." Time was when the big man, a steamfitter by trade, would have thought it mad folly to come to Ed Massey's for anything but a haircut. But last week his pay envelope held $140, and he now frankly enjoyed these little male luxuries-everything except a manicure...
...year-old native witch doctor in the mountains south of Johannesburg wanted to make rain for his people. He slit his four-year-old son's throat, then put the blood into cattle horns. He dissected the body for "rain medicine." He loved his son, he said. But that was the black man's way to make rain...
Only requirement for the Central Medical School, at Suva in the Fiji Islands, is the equivalent of a good U.S. high-school education. Students are given four years of anatomy and surgery. One thing students find hard to unlearn: their fear of native witch doctors...
Shades of the Past. In a nation which has never been calmer and less hysterical in time of war, the 30 people now on trial for sedition could take comfort from a more zealous, witch-hunting U.S. past...
Under a heading LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES SHOULD NOT BE BULLIES, the Times sternly editorialized: "It is no proper function of a legislative committee ... to turn itself into a prosecutor of what may currently be unpopular. . . . When they turn themselves into witch-burning agencies . . . they go far afield...