Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understands the technique of leading through strength to weakness. In one grand-slam move the President took from the Russians the "peace" initiative they have so long held. The world has but to stretch forth its hand to have peace and prosperity such as we have not dared to dream...
Success stories like these set many desert newcomers shooting in all directions, wavering in a single day between buying a laundry and investing in a tungsten mine. Optimistic and energetic in a new land, they dream big dreams to match the big country. Those with capital look for investments and find them: Ontario (Calif.) Aircraft Executive Glenn Odekirk has interests in desert tungsten and uranium; Hollywood Actor John Ireland and Tennis Star Don Budge are building a swank, $298,000 racquet club outside Phoenix. The less well-heeled look for likely sites for gas stations, ice-cream routes...
...Dream of Danger. Pushed along by winds up to 30 knots, strongest ever recorded in a trans-Pacific race (the Los Angeles Weather Bureau had predicted the weakest breezes yet), the Morning Star made the most of every gust. But her crew paid a rough price for their speed. All ports were closed against the high following seas, and sleep was almost impossible for the watch below. Boiling ahead of the trade winds, the white-hulled yacht climbed wave crests and planed down like a surfboard. The mainsail boom sliced dangerously through the sea. One night Crewman Bob Carlson dreamed...
...heroine of In a Farther Country is a New York-exiled New Mexican named Marietta McGee-Chavéz. She is Scotch-Irish-Spanish, dreams interminably about the Old World but lives on gloomy West 23rd Street with a shopkeeper named MacDougal. Author Goyen's point is that great emotional disunity results when so many different elements are present, e.g., how can a woman dream about "birds and bells in a romantic musical city" when a guy with a name like MacDougal is trying to climb into bed with her? How can she capture the ravishing spells...
...door to a bevy of characters as split-and-mixed as herself; they spin poetic stories in a troubadourish vein, seek peace and unity in the heart of a whirl of fantasy. In a Farther Country fades out with Marietta and one of her wacky acquaintances revolving in a dream world to the accompaniment of a fancy Goyen epitaph: "Her body became like a long yellow stalk, going up to seed in her hair . . . The room was dark except for the flashing ... of the sign across the street that said Moving and Storage . . . [These] words . . . seemed to be the last...