Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then the plot enlarged. The instigators had become Attorney General
Herbert Brownell Jr., his chief deputy, William P. Rogers, and Sherman
Adams, Assistant to the President. Further along ... it was the
Democrats who 'shoved' Secretary Stevens into the battle ... So Senator
McCarthy had backed away completely from his original charges."
When he decided to accept a $335,000 Ford Foundation grant for a special teacher-training program to alleviate L.A.'s perennial shortage, the Herald & Express erupted once again. The whole idea, the paper grumbled, seemed to be some sort of plot. Had not the foundation's former President Paul Hoffman favored UNESCO? Was Stoddard thus merely using the grant "to swing UNESCO . . . back" into the schools again? "Pink Socialism." cried the paper-and Stoddard was forced to drop the grant...
When the oil executives plot their off shore campaigns, they are sometimes ap palled, fleetingly, by the job they have undertaken. One thing they are sure of is that at first only very rich offshore oil fields can be exploited at a profit. Pools containing only 10 million barrels, though profitable on land, cannot support all the costly services demanded by offshore pro duction. When the big fields have been fully developed, the little fields can live off them, like small villages and farms between major shopping centers...
...wonder is how beautifully she plays it. For the first half-hour Actress Booth breathes such a warm belief into the dull things she is doing that the audience willingly suspends the disbelief the silly plot inspires...
...boil. Labor and peasants presented with farms of their own under the land-reform program pledged loyalty to Arbenz and the Communists; the remote Indians, as ever, were mute and apart. But in the capital, which had elected an anti-Communist mayor in 1951, the government discovered "plot" after "plot"-and across the border in Honduras, Castillo Armas was almost ready...