Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of our nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream...
...Latham, has a manner so arid that he seems to exhale dust, like an overloaded vacuum cleaner, every time he speaks. Gradually, however, they grow-and grow believably -into love. Glencora gives up any notion of running away with the scoundrel Burgo Fitzgerald. Plantagenet, for his part, relinquishes his dream of becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer so that he can take her to the Continent. Eventually, however, he does become Chancellor, then Prime Minister, and inherits his dukedom; Glencora becomes a celebrated hostess...
...Title Dreams. Middleweight Mike Colbert, ranked first in his division by Ring magazine (all of the contenders were ranked among America's best in their class by Ring), hammered for eight full rounds against Jackie Smith but was unable to put him away. Smith was singled out for attention because he has a college degree and hails from Rocky Marciano's home town of Brockton, Mass. Neither distinction gave him any advantage over the stylish and strong Colbert; still, he won the crowd's ovation and the admiration of his opponent. Heavyweight Larry Holmes, the card...
...some of the highlights of a long tradition of arrogant despotism in the government of this university. It is clear that Harvard is not as interested in creating an environment of growth through participation for the members of its community, as it is of creating a bureaucrat's dream through the continuous homogenization of its student body and exploitation of its work-force. Despite the claims of its founders, Harvard has become ungodly. Gustavo Buntinx...
When Israeli troops occupied the West Bank of the Jordan in 1967, Israel's leading archaeologist, Yigael Yadin, was able to fulfill a dream. Pulling strings with Premier Levi Eshkol, he got the army to assign an officer to visit a certain antiquities dealer in Bethlehem.* Under pressure, the dealer opened a hiding place under the floor of his shop and surrendered an ancient, partially worm-eaten scroll...