Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formed the background for the Marshall mission. Painstakingly, the white paper gives the now painful details: the suspension of arms shipments to Chiang to allow the U.S. a brief, bootless masquerade as a neutral arbiter between Chiang and the Communists; and General Marshall's increasing infatuation with the dream of building a middle-of-the-road "liberal" party from scattered political factions in a nation at fatal war with itself. From those factions that inspired such hope, only one leader later rose to power: General Li Tsung-jen, who last year proposed to the U.S.S.R. that American influence...
...Empire-the first and only European union. Since then, the single, jagged spire of Strasbourg's red stone cathedral has seen the tides of war sweep back & forth across the Alsatian plain. This week Strasbourg became the center of a great if still uncertain move to revive the dream of European union. In the central hall of Strasbourg's university, delegates from ten European countries assembled in the first session of the Council of Europe...
...lordship, Stoke is "an exciting experiment"-the end of his lifelong dream to give a university education to all the John Elkins of Britain. "Some have told me," says he, "that ... I am proposing to put a lever under a rock which has stood in one place for a great many years. Well, then, at my age, I cannot afford to wait too long...
Haigh, said Defense Counsel Fyfe, had been tormented for years by a recurrent dream. In it, he saw "a veritable forest of crucifixes ... the crucifixes turned into trees. Then a man appeared collecting something from the dripping trees, which seemed at first to be rain or dew. But then it became blood." The dream, said Sir David, left his client "with an overpowering desire to have blood...
...student at Williams College, Terris Moore dreamed of climbing Mt. Everest. That dream never came true, but he did make the first ascent of Alaska's Mt. Bona (16,420 ft.) and was a member of the only party to reach the top of China's Mt. Minya Konka...