Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your picture, and I want to try to tell them and others who consider the U.S. a rich country that the dollar sign is an inadequate picture of us and our country. It is in our being able to believe, think, write and speak as we choose, to dream of and work for a better and happier world for our children and for children everywhere...
Britain's dream of sharing a common cake while hoarding a few goodies of her own riled some of the Common Market nations. Fortnight ago during the French debate on the Common Market, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flatly declared that a Free Trade Area which did not include agricultural products was unacceptable to France. The Danes and the Dutch felt the same way. In a less noble tone some continental economists insisted that Britain need not fear the Common Market plan so much since all signatories were equally sensitive to their own farm lobbies and had already built...
...found in Hamlet's oft-cited directions to the Players (Act iii, 2), but rather in Hamlet's 'O what a rogue and peasant slave' soliloquy (Act ii, 2), especially the lines, "Is it not monstrous that this player here,/ But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,/ Could force so his soul to his own conceit/ That from her working all his visage wann'd,/ Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect,/ A broken voice, and his whole function suiting/ With forms to his conceit...
...lakes covered with oil seeping from holes in the ground. Indians and traders skimmed it off for their cook fires, scooped up fistfuls of the rich black muck to waterproof their boots. But to commercial oilmen, the potential of the Great Slave oil has long been only a tantalizing dream. No one had much encouragement until this year. Then Phillips Petroleum and Home Oil Co., which were exploring in the Peace River area far to the south where oil had already been found (see map), brought in three wildcat wells near Lesser Slave Lake in a previously untapped rock formation...
...clocks go off in a seven-room apartment in Manhattan's East 90s, which Tanner, his wife Louise and their two children (boy and girl) will desert in the fall for a town house. Tanner is masterminding the rebuilding of this now-gutted dream house: the brownstone front will be limestone, the ceiling in the maid's sitting room will be knocked out to create the wall space needed to hang some heirloom tapestries "with a lot of people in codpieces out looking for something." Tanner's spiritual home (his father was formerly a broker...