Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother Adele represent a history of shoplifted dresses, bad checks and unfurnished apartments. One epochal day, Adele flashily abandons small-town Wisconsin and whirls to Hollywood, aiming to snag a rich husband and make her child a star. At the Pacific's edge, Ann gently nourishes another dream: to outgrow people like her mother, "who start the noise and bang things, who make you feel the worst; they are the ones who get your love." Finally, Adele taunts once too often: "It's me or nothing, kid." Ann's choice stuns them both...
...complete withdrawal of INF weapons, she insisted that any agreement would have to be accompanied by a buildup of U.S. short-range nuclear missiles, a category in which the Soviets currently hold a 9-to-1 advantage. Thatcher pulled no punches. "A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream," she declared at a state dinner in the Kremlin's richly paneled Hall of Facets. "But you cannot base a sure defense on a dream. A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us." She defended Washington's Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star...
...Long a dream of the American particle-physics community, an accelerator the size of the proposed SSC would be 20 times as powerful as any now existing. It would dwarf the major U.S. accelerators -- Fermilab in Batavia, Ill., and another at Stanford University -- and would surpass even Europe's CERN collider, near Geneva. Formally endorsed by Ronald Reagan last January, the project is what Energy Secretary John Herrington calls a "momentous leap forward" in the exploration of matter and energy...
While not looking beyond the Ivy League--four tough conference games remain--the Crimson has allowed itself to dream a little. Of the ECAC and NCAA tournaments...
...think the changes are significant," saysJeffrey A. Camp '89, who chaired the council's adhoc committee on discipline. "There's no questionthat [one disciplinary body] was just a dream thatcould never come true in the foreseeable future...