Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasion of Ike's remarks was a ground-breaking ceremony at Shippingport, Pa. for the world's first full-scale commercial atomic power plant. Speaking from Denver, Ike said the plant would bring mankind "closer to the fulfillment of the ancient dream of a new and better earth...
...said, had been a "little naive" in swallowing everything that poison-tongue informants had said about Chasanow, who had made enemies (as well as scores of friends) in the intense local politics of Greenbelt, Md., where he lives. Said Chasanow: "It seems like I woke up from a bad dream. The sun is shining. The birds are singing. The flowers are blooming...
...Twelve Men (M-G-M). In Mrs. Miniver (1942), her greatest hit, Greer Garson helped convince the U.S. public that the English middle-class family, with its back to the wall of a rose-covered dream cottage, was manning-and womaning-the front line of freedom. In Her Twelve Men, which is perhaps the most Greerily effective Garson picture in recent years, she does the same kind of job for the teaching profession...
...stories about South Africa that do not. blessedly, derive from the headlines, and war tales that are moving without resorting to war-fiction language and cliches. One or two are complete failures. But the two best ones make it plain that Author Krige is more than promising: 1) The Dream, which lyrically describes a happy young boy's bewilderment when death robs him of his favorite aunt and cousins, then takes his baby brother as well; 2) The Coffin, a fine yarn about a virile old South African farmer and great-grandfather who always had his own expensive coffin...
...year-old who lives with his illiterate uncle in a shack on the edge of a Mississippi swamp. Life is simple to the point of vacuity-a little huntin', a little fishin', some wood cuttin' when the groceries run low. "Swamp sprout" that he is, Skeeter dreams mostly of a "li'l old" shotgun. Uncle Jesse has his dream too: he's going to get him a set of "Roebuckers" (false teeth) so he can "eat me a bait of hicker' nuts" and "enough roasting ears to kill a goat." When Skeeter finds...