Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...synonym for dullness. The scenes of flatboats on the Ohio, and Germans and Yankees moving into the North-west side by side to carve out Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, were not lecture scenes. Nor were the discussions about what drove these people on into the West. The vision of free lands, cattle, and finally wheat drew them like a magnet, and drew their sons across the Mississippi and onto the plains. And the people sitting in the wagons which creaked through forests of prairie grass were interesting people, who had real thoughts and misgivings in their minds...
Thank God and the Tennessee hills for Cordell Hull; for his patience and breadth of vision. And some day may Free Trade be complete in this part of the world, so we can set an example against avarice and economic inequality for the rest of the world to follow...
Eliot had no trouble in identifying "What is so rare as a day in June" as the first line of Lowell's "Vision of Sir Launfal." "I ought to know that," said Eliot, "Lowell lived right down my street. In fact, I was the first to recognize his true genius...
...when at last it did happen, it was already too late. Asa had begun to establish a protectorate over his daughter, Roy. "You will stand by me?" Roy asked. "I will, Roy, as long as you need me." "Looking up at the closed sky, once again [Asa] had a vision of Kate and the harvested fields and the broad river. Still ahead, and within sight, but just out of reach, and always a little farther away, fading, but not ever disappearing, was freedom...
...Congress has Mr. Roosevelt's vision, his political experience, his prestige, his patriotism and, may I add, his breeding...