Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...iraq and Jordan, both governments were busy with trials of opposition leaders. The Iraqis rounded up 108 supporters of the deposed regime of murdered King Feisal and Nuri asSaid. The first defendant, Major General Ghazi Daghestani, predictably "confessed" that he had been involved in a plot with the U.S. and Britain to "overthrow" the Syrian government...
...crack it open almost raw to lay bare the flesh beneath. In Champion (1949), his hero was a heel who could hit, and would hit anybody to get to the top; in High Noon (1952), a lawman alone against four avenging gunslingers. The Defiant Ones, in terms of its plot, is equally spare: two men escape from a Southern chain gang and are hunted down by a sheriff and his posse. But from a stark, grimly witty script by Movie Newcomers Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith, Director Kramer makes a story of human understanding slowly carved...
...surface the Middle East was relatively quiet: not a single government collapsed, only two bombs were exploded (in Lebanon), only one political plot frustrated (in Jordan). Nevertheless, events happened in the Middle East like the first pebbles of an avalanche, and almost all of them fell in a direction favorable to Egypt's Nasser...
...Widmerpool, a figure of fun reappearing in this novel as the "new man" of modern Britain. In the course of the plot he is taught that marriage is not an exact science but, as Foch said of war, "a terrible and passionate drama." Widmerpool is a bouncing, uncivilized young City type whose political sagacity is expressed in his plan for averting World War II, then looming. The plan: give the Order of the Garter to Hermann Göring ("After all, it is what such things...
Venezuela came alarmingly close to mob rule last week as ambitious leftist politicians dreamed up an army plot and then loudly put it down with windy proclamations, mass rallies and a general strike. Through three days of crisis, the booming Communist Party played a talented leading role. But conservative military leaders with no plot in mind, kept their tempers down and their tanks in camp and avoided civil...