Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the sun-baked hills of Santa Susana, covered with rough brush and scrub oak, the priests and prophets of ancient Israel might walk without surprise; such was the hard land where Jacob lay down to dream on a pillow of stones and David praised God with song and sword. But the hills of Santa Susana are 35 miles from Los Angeles, and the Jews who walk there are men like Furniture Manufacturer Julius Fligelman or Actor Paul Muni. They and other U.S. Jews of all ages come to Brandeis Camp Institute as to a spiritual oasis where they...
...Ancient Dream. The urge-and need-to add German divisions to NATO is the No. 1 reason for EDC. Reason No. 2 is a long-term political objective: European Union. By intermingling the armies of France and Germany, Pan-Europeans like Konrad Adenauer, Alcide de Gasperi and France's Jean Monnet confidently hoped to staunch the national rivalries that have convulsed their Continent for centuries...
...white men had ever been before, then went to work for a Texas oil company. When he was fired for telling off his boss, he found that no other oil company would have him. He scraped along in the contracting business for a while, but never forgot a romantic dream of his days at the Texas College of Mines: prospecting and finding a million dollars. In the Atomic Age, he decided, his best chance was uranium...
...felt the intoxicating glow of knowing that "neither paleolithic men, nor the pot-holers of today, had ever been here before us." Having gained the heart of the mountain from the top, they stood triumphant upon its base-a monumental mass of carboniferous schist. It was a moment speleologists dream about...
Abandoning themselves to the joy of raising Remo. the maiden aunts plan to make him an engineer, a millionaire, a deputy, a minister, and dream that he will rise "like a lighthouse ... to illumine the world." But Remo has no head for study and no heart for work. What he doesn't know about women, however, can be written on the head of one of his aunts' pins. After stripping the sisters of their savings, land and farm, Remo marries a beautiful American pressure-cooker heiress and goes to live with her. in New York. The blow...