Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of widespread public alarm, New York gossips concocted wild stories of a Tory plot to kidnap or murder Washington-700 men were supposedly involved, and it was reported that the general narrowly escaped death. Most of these rumors are nonsense, but the facts are disturbing enough...
Amid anxiety that recent instances of counterfeiting might be a British plot to discredit colonial currency, the New York Provincial Congress's Conspiracies Committee began a full investigation. It soon discovered that...
...Allies win World War I by serving tea at the Bellamys and moonlighting as a bus conductor. But lately she has been embroiled in World War II, filming The Eagle Has Landed, in which she plays a British WAC gone awry aiding Michael Caine, a German colonel, in a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill. How could the prim Rose of Upstairs switch from kitchenling to quisling? Easy, she says: "I'd do it to anyone for the money...
...that smelled of the kind of anti-Palestinian plot of which the fedayeen have been accusing Syria, Israel and the U.S., Washington sources were quick to deny any complicity. "We could not have figured this one out if we had tried to, and we have people working day and night," said a top U.S. analyst. "The Arabs did it all by themselves." Washington officials said that Syria had not consulted the U.S. about its intentions, nor did the U.S. have anything to do with Syria's decision to increase its forces. State Department sources claimed that U.S. leverage...
...January, the plot got thicker. Pavlovich's wife, Monette Pavlovich, alias Cary Monica Cabot, was arrested for doing the same thing at the Business School. In February, the pair were indicted...