Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer of 1951, Russ and his wife took both tots to England, amid a gratifying fanfare of publicity, to swim the English Channel. Bubba was five and Kathy four. The British were horrified, and after debate in Commons, refused to countenance Russ's fondest dream. Russ took the kids to France, but the French turned him down, too. Eventually Russ gave up and brought them home. They starred in Florida water carnivals and branched out with bit parts in an Esther Williams motion picture, Skirts Ahoy...
...address, Sir Winston Churchill this week gave Britain's own answer to the Communist peace offensive. He went further than President Eisenhower did, and proposed that East and West should negotiate now, in detail and privately, at a big-power conference. The speech put into words his longtime dream of a grand conclave which might bring "a generation of peace...
...Philharmonic Orchestra to Oxford's New Theater for the world premiere of Delius' 61-year-old opera, Irmelin. For four hours, the wistful music wended its peaceful way. The Princess Irmelin rejected her 100th suitor, explaining, in effect, that she was not frigid, just waiting for her dream man. She finally got him in the last scene, in the person of a swineherd...
Nineteen years ago, when the depression provided tempting arguments for high tariffs, a far-thinking administration initiated the Reciprocal Trade Agreements. In 1953, although world trade is more urgent than ever before, it appears that Congress may replace this vital primer to Western economy with the special interests' dream--the Simpson Act. The Act would hand presidential control of trade agreements to the conservative U.S. Tariff Commission, while providing higher barriers for lead, zinc, and fuel oil. Opposed by Dulles, Eisenhower, and most of the Democrats, the Simpson Act would be the precurser of a dangerous high-tariff program...
...Ehrlich's dream of a "magic bullet" to cure syphilis came a step nearer fulfillment. The Chicago health department treated 125 early cases with single whopping doses (2,500,000 units) of Bicillin, a variant of penicillin which stays in the body as long as a month. After a year, 94% had no sign of the disease...