Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sort of sentimental journey most tourists can only dream of: the successful American's triumphal visit to the land from which obscure forebears set out for the New World generations ago. And so Ronald Reagan's four-day visit to Ireland was carefully planned as a kind of televised wish fulfillment, especially on Sunday in the village of Bally-poreen (pop. 350). There the President was scheduled to pray in the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, look up in the baptismal book the record of Great-Grandfather Michael's baptism on Sept...
...Napoleón Duarte, it was a moment to savor. Robbed of what looked like certain victory in 1972, then beaten by Salvadoran soldiers and exiled to Venezuela for seven years, Duarte realized a long-cherished dream when he was sworn in as his country's first freely elected President in half a century. For El Salvador, the day proffered the sweet promise that after nearly five years of civil war and a dozen years of political turbulence, the country might begin to heal. For the Reagan Administration, the inauguration symbolized its most successful accomplishment in the region, what...
...peers facing similar situations and conflicts. Moving into the world, by ones or twos, they had to start from scratch. The political convictions of many, though without the same intensity of political practice, survived; for others, these convictions were not strong enough to weather the pressures of the American Dream; in short, there are some who sold...
Rothenberg spent the first semester of his junior year at Harvard in Nepal on a study abroad program. "I'd always wanted to go but it just seemed more of a dream, rather than something I could go and get credit for and save money doing--because it's much cheaper than going here." He spent the bulk of his stay living in Katmandu with a family that didn't speak any English, studying many aspects of the country's culture and learning Nepali...
When Jesse Kuhaulua went to Japan from his native Hawaii in 1964, he was a 19-year-old, 253-lb. "skinny" kid with a dream of being a professional sumo wrestler. Eight years later he became the first foreigner to win a sumo tournament and went on to fight in a record 1,654 bouts, making him something of a popular legend. Recently Takamiyama, 39, began to feel the combined effects of time and a string of injuries, losing 13 of his last 15 matches. Last week, confronted with a humiliating down-ranking to the third tier of sumo wrestlers...