Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Admission to NATO will mean completion of a task Kemal Atatürk set out upon 28 years ago this month: the westernization of Turkey. His original dream of converting Turkey from an Eastern empire to a Western nation is now, many Turks believe, a reality. NATO membership will be worn like the brimmed Western hat that replaced...
Almost everyone has dreamed of striking it rich with a two-bit stock. Thanks to that dream, dozens of sharp, fly-by-night promoters in Toronto have struck it rich peddling worthless penny stocks to Americans. Spurred by the boom in Canadian oil (TIME, Sept. 24), dealers have flooded the U.S. with literature on such "promising opportunities" as Hy-Flow Petroleum, Golden Fleece Mines and Uranium Explorations, Ltd., have been able to bilk U.S. suckers of some $50 million (swindlers' estimate) a year. Sample come-on: "Our first stunned enthusiasm was fully warranted . . . This is the opportunity...
...favorite characters have the candor and abruptness of people well into their third or fourth glass of champagne. The hero of The Blessing, Airman Charles-Edouard de Valhubert, of the Free French, is clearly one of Novelist Mitford's favorites. He is, in fact, a woman's dream come true: handsome, rich, brave as a lion, bewitching as a magician. It is thus a serious tactical error when the unimaginative Hughie Palgrave invites Charles-Edouard to look up his fiancée, Grace, in London...
...Midsummer Night's Dream takes you into the land of fairy tale in the Brattle. Matinee and evening performances today...
Meanwhile, her roommate, Georgia Stonehill had become fully awake. Ac cording to her statements yesterday, she had heard voices earlier, but had thought it was a dream...