Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open secret, and it was awaited with grim relish by the ardent young officers who fought in last September's revolution to bring down Dictator Juan Peron. They and their leader and hero, Admiral Isaac Rojas, itched to inflict a lesson in hot lead on the endlessly plotting Peronista party chiefs, labor leaders and pro-Perón officers cashiered by the revolutionary government. As luck would have it, when the plot popped this week, hard-boiled Vice President Rojas was in top command of the armed forces while amiable President Pedro Aramburu was returning by river minesweeper from...
...Guard Armory after brawls in which several people were injured. In Minneapolis a theater manager withdrew a film featuring the music after a gang of youngsters left the theater, snake-danced around town and smashed windows. In Birmingham champions of white supremacy decried it as part of a Negro plot against the whites. At a wild concert in Atlanta's baseball park one night, fists and beer bottles were thrown, four youngsters were arrested...
...been tortured, wrote, "Suddenly I realized how incredibly strong I am. When the soul returned once more to the body, it was as if the jubilation of the whole world had been gathered together here." A onetime mayor of Leipzig, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, implicated in the July 20, 1944 plot against Hitler's life, wrote in his death cell: "Christ...
...what they did with full knowledge of the consequences-not only in terms of traditional patriotism but to the safety of their families. Wrote Heinrich, Count von Lehndorff-Steinort, to his wife, on the eve of his "condemnation and execution" (he was involved in the July 20 plot...
...beside such stark drama, the rest of the TV week had a trivial look. NBC's Producers' Showcase offered the 12-year-old Bloomer Girl. Like many Broadway musicals transferred to TV, it had some pleasant tunes and a deplorably outdated plot. At week's end CBS tried to cheer up viewers with its own musical version of John Hersey's A Bell for Adano. Some of the lyrics were unfortunate ("We think more of the bell than the belly . . ."); the chorus of happy villagers was led by a blonde Anna Maria Alberghetti while Barry Sullivan...