Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nicaragua (pop. 1,200,000) is the more or less contented plantation of Dictator Somoza, who owns perhaps one-tenth of the country's best farm land. Somoza escaped a Costa Rica-born assassination plot just in time to provide airbases for the planes that won the anti-Communist revolution in Guatemala last June. He stood accused last week of trying to do as much for rebel Costa Ricans...
...lusty self. But it was probably the safest major slicing job he could do, especially since some critics consider the robust youth an overgrown character in the first place. At any rate, he appears only long enough to deliver a few speeches and be killed which is all the plot requires...
Under the new plan buses would exchange passengers at the sidewalks, and subway entrances would be transferred to the walks bordering Massachusetts Ave. "The kiosk might then be turned into a grass plot," suggested McCann...
...since he lives with his widowed sister and her callow son, viewers are not deprived of any of the dubious delights of family comedy. Bob is also a Hollywood photographer, which permits him to be surrounded by shoals of swooning models as well as a yearning secretary. The plot of the opening show, sponsored by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., was composed of equal parts of slapstick and nonsense, and not even as able a light comedian as Cummings could do much with...
...great ruin of a woman, who suddenly presents a claim of her own to the dead love. The bond between the two older women, one strangely dominating the other's life, might once have grown into a whole Gothic novel, but no Goth is Author Bowen: her plot twists are in the mind, her castles are moated by irony rather than romance. It is the kind of story where mood is action: each fall of spirits is barometered, each falling flower microscoped. Hovering on the story's edges is a terrifyingly bright child who wants to make...