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Word: dreaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final Truman message to Congress was notable for a prediction. If the Mutual Security program succeeds, it will be followed by the "ultimate decay of the Soviet slave world." As a goal, this ultimate decay is certainly preferable to the dream that the world can be brought into a delicate balance which will permit the "peaceful coexistence" of Communism and the systems which Communism is dedicated to destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Ultimate Decay | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...This is my dream-all British," Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes once said, placing the palm of his hand across the map of Africa. Rhodes spoke 75 years ago, and in the following half-century his countrymen came close to fulfilling his dream. In West Africa's jungles, they founded two great river colonies: the Gold Coast, which is bigger than Minnesota, and Nigeria, which dwarfs Texas and Oklahoma combined, and is Britain's most populous (25 million) African possession. Following Explorer David Livingstone in his search for the source of the Nile, they filtered into East Africa, crossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMONWEALTH: Africa Emerges | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...Mexico City last week Diego Rivera, longtime Communist sympathizer, was brushing in the finishing strokes on a new mural. Its title: The Nightmare of War and the Dream of Peace. Rivera called it "the best thing I have ever done"; it was, at any rate, one of the most violent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Diego Stays Home | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...Mortimer, the U.S.A. stinks. The Mafiais around every street corner, with a slot machine under each arm. The Communists are pushing dope. Legislatures can be bought at a hundred dollars a man. Youth is "unbridled and hopped-up." "Greedy groups and misguided ninnies" are turning America--"man's bravest dream"--into a "nightmare." Luckily, Lait and Mortimer have been Johnny-on-the-spot, grubbing under every available rock for their case against the country...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: U.S.A. Confidential | 3/13/1952 | See Source »

Qualifications. In Portland, Ore., an Oregonian advertiser offered to rent a "newlyweds' dream house" to a couple with "no children under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 10, 1952 | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

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