Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...props, all of them hazardous in the extreme. One of the oldest is the West Po'kchop Railroad, which runs almost perpendicularly up one side of Onnecessary Mountain and straight down the other. A stiffnecked industrialist named Stubborn J. Tolliver built this suicidal grade to satisfy a boyish dream of his son, Idiot J. Tolliver. To keep "his drooling boy happy, Tolliver still starts one train a week up the tracks. Except in those instances when Capp installs switchbacks in the line, each train falls back with a crash, killing all its passengers...
...effort to maintain the cumbersome four zone administration continued until the June 1946 meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers at which time it became clear to the Allies that Soviet cooperation was a faded dream. During this period, Clay points out, the United States realized that it would have to be militarily strong in Europe if it hoped to maintain peace and win the confidence of Germany. "Reluctantly," ho says, "we had to change our idealistic approach for a more realistic approach...
Blandings' Way, by Eric Hodgins. The faintly sad story of what happened to Mr. Blandings when he moved into his dream house and became a citizen of suburbia (TIME...
Blandings' Way, by Eric Hodgins. The raucous and faintly sad story of what happened to Mr. Blandings when he moved into his dream house and became a citizen of suburbia (TIME...
...Blandings was on the run. He ran the gamut of local political pitfalls before he was through, and landed in most of the social & economic ones too. At last, weary and harried but doing his best to look like Moses leading his people through the Wilderness, Blandings sold his dream house and brought his family back to a Manhattan apartment. "Just think," his wife sighed happily, "out "of a side bedroom window you can catch a little glimpse of Central Park...