Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night before the coup was to take place, three destroyer captains who had thrown in with the conspirators witlessly gave the plot away. With their vessels tied up at the tightly guarded Greek naval base in Salamis, the captains told crew members to remain aboard because of "top secret maneuvers" set for the next day. When no men went ashore that night, shore police became suspicious and began questioning the crew. After government officials heard the story about unscheduled maneuvers, the captains were arrested...
...headquarters in the world." But the genesis of the Sears Tower is more complicated than that. When the company decided to leave its sprawling old headquarters on Chicago's deteriorating West Side, height was the furthest thing from the executives' minds. They had bought a two-block plot on the western edge of Chicago's Loop and approached the problem of building the headquarters in exactly the same way as they planned any of Sears' stores throughout the world-from the inside...
...plot of Five Fingers, such as it is, involves the rivalry between two schools of Kung Fu: the good guys are handsome, the bad guys ugly. Dubbed in a kind of pidgin hip-"Hey, whadda you guys doin' here?" the hero asks at one point-the film makes no attempt to synchronize speech to lip movements, and a character can go on talking long after his mouth has closed. Not that it matters, considering the low level of the dialogue. Still, the picture is harmless fun, and the violence seems no more real-or scary-than the POWs...
Secretariat's home-ordinarily-is especially serene. Trainer Laurin, who races one of the best strings of horses at Belmont even without Secretariat, has a cluster of buildings all to himself, surrounding an outdoor walking ring and a grazing plot. The area is its own little world, isolated from all outside influence, peopled only by the same familiar faces that work there every day, going about their business with quiet and calming assurance...
...example from the famous Shadow Over Innsmouth will suffice. The plot concerns a doomed Massachussetts fishing town whose population is obscenely corrupted by intermingling with a race of fiendish undersea creatures. Learning all this, the narrator attempts to flee. On the outskirts of town, he looks back and sees his pursuers "in a limitless stream-flopping, hopping, croaking, bleating, surging inhumanly through the spectral moonlight in a grotesque, malignant saraband of fantastic nightmare...