Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Minister Nehru's government, and a source of swelling pride to India. In a land where famine is often a threat and sometimes a reality (3,000,000 people died of starvation in 1943), the development of artificial fertilizers to stimulate food crops has long been a dream of the Nehru government...
...Adams, Jacques d'Amboise), a sword fight between Tristram and the cuckolded king (Francisco Moncion). Then, as Tristram and Iseult lie adying, the stage darkens again, the ruins of Tintagel descend, and the dancers don their dusters, derbies and veils. They wander off, wondering whether it was a dream...
...World War I why he was not "out at the front," he was able to retort: "Go round to the side, Madam, and you'll see that I am." When, enveloped in a vast cloak and toying with a swordstick, he sat his 300 pounds down to dream on a wayside bench, passers-by "either take me for the village idiot or for one of Harrod's delivery vans." He liked to believe that his life was "centric," though it struck most people as eccentric beyond belief. He would take a bath, step out, and then step...
...book, by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, two New York Daily Mirror reporters, purports to be an expose on how "greedy groups and misguided ninnies" are making a nightmare of "man's great dream"--America. In one chapter it states that "Harvard is so gay you can hear the swish across the River Charles," and follows this closely with: "Girl queers breed at Wellesley and at many of the fine finishing schools...
...dream of Don Zeno Saltini, parish priest, was to found a community that would "return to the origins of Christianity after a lapse of 20 centuries." As a curate, he began by setting up lodgings for homeless children. In 20 years these grew into Nomadelphia-the "Town of Brotherhood," a settlement of 1,150 souls, most of them orphans under 15, outside the Italian city of Modena (TIME, June...