Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...league farm system has had its pick, meaning the Blue Sox would be free to go after anybody no one else wanted. In 1983 Roger Kahn, who wrote The Boys of Summer, ran the Blue Sox through a pennant and right into a lyrical new book, Good Enough to Dream, released this summer. The title was a characterization of his team. But now Kahn was gone, his players scattered to dusty lots all over America, and Fowler was on his way to the bank for second and third mortgages...
...crumb" and as "piecemeal reform, grudgingly given." Still, in the South African context, last week's announcements represented some progress. Welcoming the government's shift on its citizenship policy, the leader of the white parliamentary opposition, Dr. Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, declared, "It signals the end of the apartheid dream but poses the challenge of doing away with the apartheid reality...
...wouldn't dream of answering that one," says perennial professorial favorite Donald H. Fleming, Trumbull Professor of American History. Fleming, who teaches courses on European and American intellectual history, is known among students for both his interesting voice inflection and what students often refer to as the "charm" of his lectures...
...sense, it was a dream fulfilled for all seafaring scientists. To locate one of the most technologically advanced vessels of its day, the researchers employed the most advanced technology of today. A team of 13 Woods Hole investigators sailing on the U.S. Navy research vessel Knorr joined forces with a contingent of French scientists aboard the Suroit, operated by the Paris-based Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER). The two ships bristled with several million dollars' worth of sophisticated equipment. It included a high-resolution sonar device that can trace precisely the contours of the ocean floor...
...Civil War was fought to expunge the American original sin (slavery) and to save the dream and the power. It was all of Homer and Shakespeare come to the New World. It was the American discovery of tragedy, and of modern death, proceeding from the jaunty, clumsy toy soldiering of First Bull Run to Sherman's scorched earth and Grant's trench slaughter, which were a moral preview of the 20th century...