Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lobster-sized germs. At bottom, two suppliant hands show mankind's futile protest against the horrors of modern war. Standing alone is the Communist version of mankind's protector: a heroic Red peace partisan, with a peace dove shield. The other panel is Picasso's personal dream of peace, where anything is possible. Picasso's trees bear golden fruit, even small children can work a plow, and a benevolent sun wears a festive dress. There are birds in fish bowls suspended in the sky, fish in canary cages on the ground...
Almost an answer to every architect's dream, Widener Reference Room is multi-purpose. Quite cosmopolitan, it caters to all types of clientele without sacrificing its dignity...
...TakeAway Program" (i.e., hard money) for "the many." ¶ At a Democratic Party fund-raising luncheon in the capital, Washington's Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson cried: "They began with the giveaways . . . They backed away from any number of their campaign programs . . . They want to dream away the Russian menace . . . The giveaway, back-away, dream-away of 1953 will become the vote-away of 1954." ¶ Ex-Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan told 200 newspaper editors assembled in Boulder, Colo.: "You can't produce prosperity through scarcity, but it looks as if the present Administration is going...
Nothing has been dearer to the surgeon's heart than the dream of a machine to replace the heart-by pumping a patient's blood during an operation. To be thoroughly effective, it must also do the work of the lungs and oxygenate the blood. Only with such equipment could the surgeon perform delicate operations with the heart in his hand, in full view, and with no blood flowing through it. Last week Philadelphia's Dr. John H. Gibbon Jr. made the dream a reality...
...major flaw: none of the other characters is strong enough to stand up to father for a minute. As a result, Novelist Hinde loses a dramatic chance to test him against any kind of opposition. But Mr. Nicholas, in his walkover, is as believable as a bad dream in which everything is both distorted and true at the same time...