Word: daydreamer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chubby, jut-jawed Joe McCarthy's 14-year record with the Yankees is a manager's daydream. "Just let me worry about the club" is one of his favorite remarks, and he has worried his well-heeled, star-studded club to eight American League pennants, seven world championships. This year, although they have stayed within shooting distance of the league-leading Detroit Tigers, the Yankees have generally looked like also-rans...
...roseate daydream, radio's indispensable stock in trade, actually materialized last week. In a new program called Queen for Today (Mutual, 2:30 p.m., E.W.T., Mon.-Fri.), one radio listener got 24 hours of wish fulfillment...
...County Wexford farmer's son, he used to lie on a cliff top in the long grass and gaze south across St. George's Channel to the tiny, haze-blue Saltee Islands. Since his first name was legally Prince, it was easy for a farm boy to daydream: "Some day I'll own those islands and become a real prince." He took to calling the Saltees "Paradise...
...current sentiment had begun when Vag heard the band play "Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind" at the Kirkland House party. He pictured himself in an insular jungle, and it almost seemed that that were real and Harvard the daydream. But he was glad that he was too busy looking forward to the approaching service to let nostalgia get the better...
...blind dates? Do you like to pass along a good story? Do you think traffic policemen have the right attitude toward motorists? Do you like movie heroes?" Studying the responses, Dr. Humm gets a "profile" of an individual showing his self-control, drive, truculence, tendency to daydream, etc. The average person, according to Dr. Humm, has a "normal-manic" temperament, i.e., is emotional but self-controlled...