Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family played even though her parents owned a course in Marysville, and "I thought golf-course owners should have at least one golfer in the family." Off the course, she keeps up a constant line of chatter, whether her game is going well ("Gee, this is all a crazy dream. I can't believe it") or poorly ("Bogey, bogey, bogey. Inexcusable. What a bonehead...
...holes (one with a brilliant 25-ft. putt) to take the lead. At the 34th hole, Anne cautiously surveyed a difficult uphill nine-footer, calmly dropped it for still another birdie to win the title in a great finish. 3 and 2. Said the new champ: "This is a dream I've had since...
...Douglas Dillon, now Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, announced: "The U.S. is prepared to consider the establishment of an inter-American regional-development institution." Latin America's joyous response was summed up by El Salvador Delegate Julio Heurtematte: "It is the realization of an old dream...
...dream of an inter-American development bank goes back to the First International Conference of American States in Washington in 1889-90. The idea came up again in Mexico City (1901-02), Washington (1931), Montevideo (1933), Buenos Aires (1936), Lima (1938), Guatemala City (1939) and Bogota (1948). By 1948 the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Export-Import Bank had been launched; the U.S. took the view that any added agency would be a duplication, held steadfast to this position at inter-American conferences in Washington (1950), Caracas (1954), Petropolis (1954) and Buenos Aires...
...Perse never allows the hope of purification and renewal to gutter out. In Anabasis (1924), his best-known work, partly thanks to an excellent translation by T.S. Eliot, Perse tells of the seedtime of history. Man, the nomad, ranges out over the deserts of the East, "Ploughland of dream." He raises and then razes a city. In Winds (1946), great storms sweep across Europe, "leaving us in their wake, Men of straw in the year of straw." The restless hero finds himself in the West as Perse conjures up the discovery and dynamism of America-"the great expresses . . . with their...