Word: witched
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...Eton and Oxford man, Keynes represented the British Treasury at the Peace Conference in 1919. With prophetic foreboding he walked out on the Conference, wrote his scathing The Economic Consequences of the Peace, which made him famous overnight. He called Lloyd George a "Welsh witch," and Woodrow Wilson a "nonconformist minister . . . [whose] mind was slow and unadaptable." Most of what he predicted came true and people began calling him Cassandra...
...create the illusion of a thick tropical forest with the moonlight filtering in. Brutus Jones is played by Theodore Brown, young Negro actor-playwright, with a great deal of feeling and deft interpretation of the character. The other outstanding performer was Toni Tucci who does a dance as a witch doctor that is truly worthy of Katherine Dunham. The other characters, minor though they are, carry out their parts well and contribute to a very complete and successful whole...
...American Museum of Natural History called it a "lecture and demonstration" on The Origins of Primitive Rhythms. But what a thousand Manhattan youngsters heard one day last week was a thumping, banging hullabaloo that set their feet atwitch, their elbows aquiver. Crouching like a witch doctor over a clattery battery of traps, perspiring, floppy-haired Gene Krupa beat out African war dances and eight-to-the-bar boogie-woogie bumps. Between beats Mr. Krupa, a scholarly thumper as well as one of the world's best drummers, explained which was which. The Museum had asked him to drum...
...Another Free Company drama to which the Legion objected was The Mole on Lincoln's Cheek. It made a plea for freedom to teach, put in a plug for honest textbooks. Probable cause of the Legion's gripe was that its characters included a few witch-hunting operatives of a "Veterans' League...
...juju consisted of a bunch of chicken feathers well soaked in chicken blood and held together by strips of snakeskin. The witch doctor buried the juju in the earth at the foot of the wind sock...