Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sosthènes Behn was one of the last grand old gentlemen of finance, at ease with king or laborer alike. ITT represented, to its thousands of workers, one man, who commanded their fierce loyalty, love and admiration. I am glad Colonel Behn did not live to see his dream become a giant conglomerate, where the personal touch and human values are lost in the balance sheet, drowned in the quest for the almighty dollar...
...voters were not amenable. Ky personally backed eleven slates, and all but one of them lost. Thieu promoted two slates, and both lost. Huong promoted two; both lost. Runner-Up Dzu backed five; all lost. Indeed, the six triumphant slates look something like a political scientist's dream of incipient democracy come true: two are likely to support the Thieu government, two are in stout opposition, and two are independent...
...days for a short story, he is currently working on 16 assignments. He makes from $40,000 to $50,000 a year. Less skillful practitioners resort to ruses. Before he gave up freelancing to become the assistant articles editor of the New York Times Magazine, Gerald Walker used to dream up devices that he called "How to succeed in freelance writing without really writing." He would interview some 20 children of celebrities, for example, and ask them to tell what their daddies did. He would then string the precocious quotes together and sell them to Good Housekeeping...
...college teaching job. When he was accepted, he told himself: "Oh, to hell with it. I'm not feeling unstable any more." As a freelancer intending to write books, "you're always waiting for the big hit," he explains. "It's kind of an American dream...
...dream of life...