Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sheep station off the coast of New Zealand gave Adrian Hayter a lingering dislike for the sights and sounds and smells of ranching, and a long-lingering love for the sea. All through his later career as a British army officer in India and Malaya, he nourished a youthful dream that someday he would sail home in his own boat. When he re tired in England seven years ago, Major Hayter, then 34, put all his savings into a sturdy nine-ton yawl, Sheila 11, took a course in deep-sea navigation and got ready for the long voyage home...
...distrust of ideas in the U.S., says Barzun, the nation's men of ideas have still "won recognition in tangible ways beyond any previous group of their peers." And more important, many have come at last to realize that they are true and proud participants in the American Dream...
...favorite. On her honeymoon in Rome with a healthy Italian villager, she takes off in search of the White Sheik to whom she has already written under the name of "Bamba Appassionata" (Passionate Doll). Somehow Wanda gets thrown into proximity with a secretary who advises her that "To dream is to live!", and then a moving van, and then many pseudo-Arabs and neo-Moorish hordes, and, finally, the White Sheik's own secluded sail boat. In her semi-conscious wake her distressed husband similarly encounters many adventures including the shower she had left running in making her get-away...
...made friends by talking about America. "All scugnizzi dream of going to America," he says. "Everybody in Naples does." Gradually he overcame their distrust, spent night after night huddled with them on bakery gratings. "When they rolled drunks or practiced immorality," he says, "I simply indicated indifference." In the cold dawn he would splash his face in street fountains before returning to his daylight duties (which included teaching 14 classes a week at a Roman Catholic college in Naples...
...favorite dream of airplane designers is a VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) that will leap into the air like a helicopter, fly as fast as a jet interceptor, and land vertically. Helicopters cannot be upgraded to do this job: they are inherently too slow. The Navy's "Pogo" (Convair XFY-I) takes off and lands vertically, but it has propellers and therefore can never fly as fast as a jet. Many other types have been tried (movable wings, swiveled engines, folding rotors), but none of them show promise of matching the designers' dream...