Word: plot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile Argentine propaganda had sagged sadly. Sometimes this resulted from plain blunders. Last November an Argentine first secretary was charged with meddling in a military plot in Chile and was hustled out of the country. Pushing diplomats, who "befriended" newspapers and radio stations in Rio, Mexico City and Havana, won few friends...
...traitors become indistinguishable from tricks of the trade. Playwright Wouk does little to plumb the presumably complex mind of his young scientist. After giving every indication that Carr is to be the center of a serious drama, the author makes him little more than an instrument of the plot...
...Radek went on trial in Moscow as a Trotskyite and traitor against the Soviet Union. He was accused of trying to make a deal with the Nazi Germans to bring about a "new revolution" in Russia. Explaining the failure of his plot in court, Radek made the memorable statement: "We had plenty of professors, but no good murderers." He was sentenced to ten years in jail. His whereabouts since 1947, when he was theoretically released, are unknown. But his policy of "national Bolshevism," in various guises, has become Communist s.o.p. It was not the first or last time that Joseph...
...damn the plot is not quite fair...
...plot! What plot? It just ain't there...