Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urban dream of a little place in the country, the New York Times found in a survey, has been replaced by a more urgent "nightmare of atom bombs falling on cities." The nightmare, encouraged by real-estate promoters and advertising copywriters, has increased sales of rural properties-estates, farms, stores and other small businesses 50 miles or more from big cities-by as much...
Tony Martin's Dream Girls (RCA Victor). Most of the girls Tony Martin sings about in his butterscotch baritone (Rosalie, Diane, Sweet Sue, Ramona, etc.) have been around for a long time, but are still pleasant to hear about...
Facts & Theories. The members of the symposium had few theories to explain these many puzzling facts. But just making a start on collecting the facts was the fulfillment of a 20-year dream for the U.S.'s Dr. Alexander Symeonidis, who had long been urging just such a meeting. Dr. Symeonidis is consultant to the recently formed Geographic Pathology Unit of the National Cancer Institute of Bethesda, Md. Said Cancer Expert Symeonidis...
...light. After the professor comes a French existentialist count, after him a comic American from Ohio, and then a comic psychiatrist. Finally, to Uncle Giorgio's great relief, Aquila is stung into fighting a duel with another comic American-a Southerner, suh, that only a British writer could dream up-and the pair leap into each other's arms. The book ends two years later with Aquila hugging his wife and benignly watching baby shred up his books. The couple are settling down to true happiness securely based on freedom from thought...
...Nationalist regime on Formosa has not turned overnight into an American good-government league's dream of good government. Since the island contains both the exiled government of China and the provincial government of Formosa, the lines of responsibility are apt to get tangled. Wu, for example, is theoretically in charge of the island's internal security. But in addition to his own provincial police, Formosa is guarded by the Nationalist government's secret police and the army intelligence service. Governor Wu is thus in the somewhat cramped position of the captain of a ship when...