Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theodore Roosevelt, aware that the ineluctable reduction of distances was thrusting the U.S. and the outside world together, was also aware that the U.S. had little time in which to revive, redefine and reorganize its humanity-spanning dream-and get its defenses in order-before foreign autocracy closed...
...painted gleaming white, making good-will stopovers at such places as Japan and Australia, keeping up with target practice at sea, losing not a vessel from mechanical failure, missing not one planned landfall. The Great White Fleet was the unmistakable American word to the world that the American Dream had come to stay. Such was the meaning of the Great White Fleet that T.R.'s last significant act as President of the U.S. was to go down to Virginia to cheer the ships as they steamed homeward into Hampton Roads in a seven-mile line, belching black smoke, crashing...
...engineer was Jordan's doughty young (22) King Hussein. As he well knew, the Palestinian Arabs and refugees who comprise two-thirds of his 1,500,000 subjects were most susceptible of all the Middle East's Arabs to Nasser's new appeal to the ancient dream of Arab unity. Urgently, Hussein called on Saudi Arabia's King Saud and his cousin King Feisal of Iraq, to confer on a new union. Saud held aloof, but Feisal came...
...tranquilizers and newer "psychic energizers" only the harbingers of a parade of drugs that will cure a wide variety of man's emotional disorders, increase and prolong his mental efficiency, perhaps decrease his need for sleep? This teaser from the psychochemist's dream world was presented last week by New York's Dr. Nathan S. Kline to a Chicago meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association. Eventually, said Dr. Kline, modifications of existing drugs, and others still to be discovered, should lead to progress in these areas...
...Long live Gamal, founder of Arab union!" roared the Cairo Deputies of the first leader to make a start toward the ancient dream of Arab brotherhood since Saladin united his Saracen hosts against the Crusaders in 1174. In Syria's Damascus the celebration was wilder. Bedouins whirled through the Arab sword dance. Soviet-made helicopters swooped overhead, 50,000 citizens paraded with their "Arab Unity" banners past the Parliament. Dark-suited legislators, who had just voted themselves and aging President Kuwatly out of jobs, produced guns from somewhere and blazed away into the sky in celebration...