Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just don't care as much since the state decriminalized possession of less than an ounce," says one grower. Soon after the legislature's action, police stumbled upon more than an acre of pot near a shed stocked with drying racks, bags and labels with the brand name American Dream printed in purple. Then a logger was nearly killed when he tripped a dynamite trap around a well-tended marijuana patch. "That's when we began to think that this was serious business," recalls Oregon Narcotics Agent Garold Assmus...
...public funds that she became known as "Melba Watching-the-Till Allen." She was enthusiastically re-elected in 1970 and four years later easily won election as state treasurer. The farmer's daughter seemed well on her way toward higher office, perhaps even the realization of her girlhood dream of serving in the U.S. Senate...
...second view, which is that the Soviets have a grand design for Africa and the Middle East. In addition to seizing a commanding position on the rim of the crucial oil routes, their goal would be to gain direct access to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, a dream that goes back to czarist times...
...theme of the two plays that opened Canada's annual Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, last week-but not power for its own sake. The central figures in both works, one by George Bernard Shaw and the other by Henrik Ibsen, are secular Salvationists who dream of bettering mankind's lot. One thrives; the other is doomed...
...jockey, the difference between wrestling a horse around a track, only to blunt his spirit for the run, and rating him kindly, handily, through the pace, while conserving enough of his energy for the stretch drive. Steve had the gift even before he had the jockey's dream. Says Tex Cauthen: "He had horses bred in him as a small child and was a good horseman from a very young age. He could make them do whatever he wanted...