Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schoolteachers. When Pa died, Ma was left with two small children to support, and she took a job playing piano in a café. For ten long years she pounded the keys and squeezed the centimes until she had enough money to get a farm-and then bought a plot of lowland that the sea invaded every summer, carrying off the harvest before it could be gathered. Indomitable, Ma built a wall of mangrove logs to keep the sea away, but a storm came and broke the wall in a single night, and broke Ma too. She kept on talking...
While official alumnae activities ended yesterday, senior activities for this week include Class night tomorrow and Commencement exercises on Wednesday. After Mary Alice Bauer, Class President, presents the class gift, the seniors will present their Class Night skit, which has "no plot, no hero, and no heroine," and will be aimed at the "students rather than the parents...
...plot of the film doesn't matter much, but it is remarkably efficient at weaving four men and four women in and out of one another's affairs, and it does lead to an appropriately neat, light ending. Everyone finishes with one mate, which is of course a major reversal for most people concerned...
...like people." Ty Ty himself is all too human. For 15 years, instead of plowing his fields, he has spent his working hours digging them full of enormous holes in a sleeveless search for legendary treasure. And every time he digs in "God's Little Acre," the plot whose yield he has allotted to his church, Ty Ty reluctantly but firmly gives the Lord a less desirable piece of ground. "God's a big man," Ty Ty reasons. "He don't mind where I put his share long as he gets...
Without a Head. To listen to Pflimlin's new-found admirers -including the Communist Deputies who supported the emergency-powers bill -the issue before France was a matter of black and white; there existed, as Pflimlin said, "a plot against the republic," and anyone who believed in democracy must be ready "to take all necessary measures to maintain republican liberties." Unhappily, like most other attempts to reduce French political issues to black and white, this proposition was founded on a fallacy. In this case, the fallacy was the assumption that the existing French political system constitutes a working democracy...