Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week George was getting more publicity than he had dared dream of in all the dedicated hours he had spent at his lathe. (The cops, for example, were accusing Con Edison of having held back its "trouble" file all these 16 years, and there was a squabble over the $26,000 reward.) Now, in the comfort of his hospital room, George was reading all about himself in the papers. He wasn't even unduly annoyed when the psychiatrists came in and interrupted his reading...
...Common Market, Mollet cried eloquently: "How often between an America sometimes too impulsive, some-times too slow to understand the perils, and a Soviet Union, disquieting and often menacing, have we wished for the existence of a united Europe, a world force not neutral but independent. This dream, this hope is today within our grasp. Have we the right to let it escape...
...KNOWS exactly when the first space ship will touch down on the surface of the moon- but what was only a fantastic dream a few decades ago is now recognized by scientists as being almost "just around the corner...
Atomic batteries powered by radioisotopes were one of the first dreams of the Atomic Age, but the dream has taken a long time to turn into reality. Most atomic batteries have produced too little elec tricity, or have stopped working after too short a time. This week the Walter Kidde Nuclear Laboratories, Inc. of Garden City, N.Y. told about a new and apparently practical kind of atomic battery developed for Elgin National Watch...
...Juan, needs-as he grows older-stronger and stronger rose-colored glasses, and is all the more romantic for the day-to-day realities of a vixen wife and two ugly daughters. In the end his foundling secretary-who turns out to be his son-has carried off his dream woman, and the general is left lonely in the dusk. But he soon enough finds a pretty new housemaid to steal out with into the darkness...