Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Come On, Six! Millikin stayed in his dream world. "At any rate," he said, "that is what the Senator is thinking about. There bejeweled women congregate-I suppose. There is a very toothsome chorus line out in front-I suppose. They have acts of various types...
...than [to recognize] a nation which at this very moment is a declared aggressor? . . . What a-pitiful hope . . . that if only we should be kind, generous and gentle to Mao Tse-tung, perhaps he will forget his association with Moscow and will embrace our free nations . . . What a mad dream! What a dangerous dream...
...certain improvements. It is interplanetary, in full color, and does not employ any cameras. Called tridco, it is one of the chief entertainments on the future earth. "They might be on this dull old planet for years. . . . It was much pleasanter to doze in the rays of Jupiter and dream of home. Leatrice missed the tridi, the plays, the bright talk and the glitter, the dances and the weekends in New York...
...Year Dream. To Post Chairman Meyer, the T-H was well worth the $8,500,000* because it gave his Post "a strong economic position." Meyer, who originally bought the Post at auction in 1933 for $825,000, has had trouble building it up. It made money during World War II, then started to lose again. But under Phil Graham, the paper's operating chief since 1946, the Post has pulled out of the deep red, made a profit in 1952 and doubled it last year...
Depreciation Allowance. In Copenhagen, looking for a Danish bride, Minnesota Contractor Leo Larsen, 45, told reporters that his "dream wife" must 1) be able to pay half her ticket to the U.S., 2) have had her appendix removed, 3) wear false teeth, because: "I don't want any unforeseen expenses...