Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House vortex. Harriman's first big job for F.D.R. was to work out the provisions of Lend-Lease aid to Britain. His second assignment was to get aid to Russia, and in 1943 he was appointed Ambassador to Moscow. Harriman was never dazzled by the Communist dream, was skeptical of the Kremlin's power politics as early as 1943. Two years later he officially warned Washington that a weak China would invite quick, dangerous Russian influence in Asia...
...Keep off the Grass" signs have not disappeared entirely, and people can still doze and dream in more than 17,000 U.S. city parks; but they can also play golf and tennis, eat a picnic lunch, ride a horse, paddle a canoe, attend a symphony concert and study the ways of animals and fishes. Tiny in comparison with the vast national parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Great Smoky Mountains, city parks are closer to the daily lives of the people they serve, and the best of them play a giant's role in an increasingly urbanized society...
Elwell's story isn't strictly a "natural unnatural" type since it rests on a flimsy device a dream which the reader will immediately suspect. The "it was all a dream" explanation has long outlived its usefulness to authors and it leaves one extremely unsatisfied with the feeling of having been duped...
I.C.U. has been a longtime dream of Japanese Protestants and foreign missionaries. Japan has 37 Christian colleges and universities, but few of them have the resources to compete with the big private or state universities, which are aggressively secular...
...more often than not the girls achieve that announcers dream, a hackless night. At about 11:45 the announcer calls the Weather Bureau and gets the forecast for the next day. The two girls begin sorting records, and putting them back into envelopes. At about three minutes of midnight, the last show is brought to a close...