Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early March 1916 in a hush of the great battle for Verdun. "One chews constantly," he had written his wife, "on that ever more baffling riddle: how this war is possible." He had spoken of living on three levels: soldierly, meditative and creative. Soldiering was to him "a complete dream act." Meditating was "perhaps closer to true experience." Creating was "an unconscious growing and going towards a goal, the sprouting of art ... a seed that one must not grasp rudely." Now he was 36. and in the final hour of his life. A shrapnel burst from French guns crushed...
Internal Insecticide. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced success with a long-held dream of agricultural chemists: an insecticide that makes the whole plant deadly to insects that try to feed on it. The chemical, called Thimet for short,* was developed by American Cyanamid Co. It is mixed 50-50 with carbon dust, and 8 lbs. of the blend is mixed with 100 lbs. of cottonseed before planting. The cost for an acre of cotton...
...party. "Wasn't this party to welcome Air Marshal Goddard?" a voice behind him asked. "It certainly was," said another. "Why?" The first voice replied: "He's dead! Died last night in a crash." The air marshal turned. There was apology and explanation-"I had a dream last night. It seemed so true." The dream was described; the air marshal laughed and thought no more about it, until-At this point in The Night My Number Came Up, a singularly unnerving picture based on a peculiar incident that actually happened in the Far East, the moviegoer suddenly feels...
...dream begins to come true. The plane in the dream was a Dakota; the air marshal (Michael Redgrave) is assigned a Dakota (DC-3) for his trip to Tokyo next day. In the dream a high official, a civil servant and a young woman were also killed in the crash; in the actual flight the local governor calls to ask if there is room on the air marshal's plane for Lord Wainwright (Ralph Truman), a colonial officer (Alexander Knox) and his secretary (Sheila Sim). The fatal conditions are completed when "a coarse, flashy man" (George Rose) wangles passage...
...drone. For lonesome songs, she tunes the top string down a third to get a minor mode. Sample: Down in some lone valley, in a lonesome place, Where the wild birds do whistle and their notes do increase, Farewell, pretty Saro, I bid you adieu, But I'll dream of pretty Saro wherever...