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Word: dreaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contract for a plane to be powered by an atomic reactor. General Electric has the contract to build the reactor and is now at work on it. And an atomic power plant in a submarine was further proof that atomic energy for industrial use was no pipe dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Fastest Submarine | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...Lungs. Luisa María has not yet given up hope that her dream man, Pretender Don Juan, son of the late King Alfonso XIII, will come to the throne. If only, she says, he were surrounded in his Portuguese exile by brave men instead of a "few shrewd but overcautious politicians." If only she could talk to him-"If I can't convince him, I'll go to the United States. I need more space. The air in Franco's Spain is not good for my lungs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Duchess Dynamite | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...Dream House. In Halifax, N.S., a pair of newlyweds advertised in the Mail Star: "Want modest home large enough to keep the bride from going home to her mother and small enough to keep the mother from coming to visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 27, 1951 | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

Filmed among the neoclassic marble buildings built by Mussolini for a world's fair that never came off, Nerone centers on two sightseeing U.S. sailors who are knocked unconscious by thugs, carried back to a dream world of Nero's Rome. For the rest of the picture they caper happily through bosomy bedroom scenes, run afoul of a fleshy Nero, are finally thrown into the arena where they organize the gladiators for a rousing game of American-style football. Sample scene: Nero's seductive wife Poppaea (played by Italy's top pin-up girl Silvana Pampanini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Slapstick on the Tiber | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...year before, when they married, the world at large took Harry and Eve for "a charming couple." But Harry soon realized that his wife had a dream life as real as her life with him, and twice as romantic. Her favorite myth: that her first and great love was a doomed young daredevil who took up a plane and crashed in flames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mouse In the Drawing Room | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

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