Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Edward J. Engel, a Santa Fe veteran of 40 years, became president, he brought in, as executive vice president and heir apparent, young Fred Gurley, who started railroading at 17 as a Burlington clerk, made a name for himself as a diesel man. Engel had the vision to see how dieselization (with Gurley bossing the job) could give the Santa Fe greater speed, lower operating costs...
...friends. He is uncompromising, the kind of man for whom even the term "liberal" is a reproach, and a sign of diluted vigor. Cavan commits suicide, but just as he was too intense to live, he is too intense to die. His friends cannot turn their eyes from his vision or pry his grip from their lives...
...Turning point was Dec. 12, 1531, when an Indian peasant named Juan Diego reported a vision of the Virgin Mary and showed his cloak on which there was an image of a dark-skinned Madonna above a crescent moon. The Virgin of Guadalupe became the patroness of Mexico, and on the site of the Aztec temple to Mother-Goddess Tonantzin, Mexicans built the basilica that became their national shrine...
...count of the newly fallen, for each death of a buddy means more bread for the living. When the men plead for provisions, the squawking field telephone informs them that "there is no Hill 317"-in headquarters files, that is. Adam Ember, half delirious with hunger, has a vision of a huge headquarters filled with urgent requests from desperate commanders, from the Assyrian and Punic wars through the Napoleonic and on to the wars of the future. "Here they all lay. pigeonholed and neglected, covered by the same fine, unearthly dust of eternity...
...work in the lettuce fields," she argued. But Serrano, a short, husky Tarascan Indian, overruled her. "Imagine!" he said. "They pay 80 American cents an hour, 130 pesos a day. We can get another cow or two. In time, a bull. Dresses for you and our daughters." His vision of himself as a bountiful provider grew, and he even talked of buying a farm...