Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousand Jews jammed the streets of Red Bucharest in front of the new Israeli legation on Valentine's Day 1949, dancing and crying "Long live Israel." After 15 years of Fascist pogroms and four more of Communist misery, the exhilarating dream of the promised land had suddenly become a reality. Thousands sold their last belongings to buy fantastically priced exit permits and steamship tickets, bade goodbye to their children and set forth to Israel, empty-handed but hopeful. By the end of 1951, when the Reds suddenly ordered a stop to emigration, 120,000 of Rumania...
...tall tree, stacks of packages wrapped in red ribbon-and twelve children (from Balanchine's School of American Ballet) tumbling about the stage in colorfully costumed tumult. Then, when the last guest had gone, and Clara, the little daughter of the house, had sunk into a Christmas night dream, the grownups took over. In Act II came the company's stars, one after the other, to dance through Clara's dream. Among them were Maria Tallchief as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Nicholas Magallanes as her Cavalier, and Tanaquil LeClercq as the Dewdrop (Waltz of the Flowers...
...next few days the ashen-faced gaffeur, scarcely eating or sleeping, blunders through a dream world that is Novelist Malaquais' vision of hell. The City sees all, hears all; it exacts silence from its citizens and demands that they draw up reports about each other. Pierre's neighbors don't know him; the telephone company denies he has a telephone; and his wife's office, the National Institute of Applied Idiosyncrasy (motto: Watch Your Step), acts as if she doesn't exist. Before the City is through with him, Pierre also loses...
...boost railroad travel; large-scale financing to buy new equipment (including as much as $250 million to be sunk into his low-slung "Train X"); reducing debt by having the railroad buy up its own bonds, and pressuring the ICC to raise freight rates. Eventually, too, another old dream would fit into the master plan: merging the Central and C. & O. into the biggest railroad system in the U.S. If ICC opposition to this plan can be overcome, the rest would be easy, since Young and Eaton usually work together like fingers on a hand. Young is also carrying...
Nevertheless, most housewives want all the new features, while those who already have them still dream of something more. Said a Michigan housewife: "We have almost all the appliances there are. And we do have a nice kitchen, with white cabinets and blue walls, chintz draperies in a Wedgwood-blue print, and matching wallpaper on the ceiling. But when we build the one we want, we'll have a kitchen about 20 feet long, with all the cooking equipment at one end and a big Lazy Susan table with captain's chairs and a fireplace at the other...