Word: plotters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touch of abracadabra-jabber at the air defense control towers: "Three. Multimotor. Low. One minute. Alpha Quebec Two Four Green . . ." This means enemy bombers. Author Caidin, a science writer, observes the beginning of the cataclysm through the little eyes of Henry Thompson, a jelly-spined civil defense map plotter who is quivering in his movie seat when the warning sirens sound. His wife is the first of 189,868 victims of the Bomb. As men, women and children are "lacerated into pulpy slivers," Thompson reaches his out-of-town civil defense headquarters but collapses there in a funk...
...very good at chess. If he tries to win, he does. He is a fox. It's never easy to know his intentions." Says ex-U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, who was in Cairo when the Nasser forces took over: "He's been a plotter all his life; he's a master...
...while a methodical clerk droned through long pages of sworn testimony. Most of the country's people, torn from sleep by the high drama, heard the evidence on their radios. When the clerk finished, Panamanians struggled to grasp an appalling accusation. According to the confessed triggerman, the highest plotter in last fortnight's race-track assassination of President Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remón was none other than José Ramón Guizado, Remón's Vice President and legally installed successor as President of Panama...
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...republic is totally dominated by the government's Colorado party, and Chaves, as party boss, had been tightrope walking his way through trouble since last December, when he ordered a rough shake-up of the cabinet. His foot finally slipped when he arrested an army major as a plotter. General Alfredo Stroessner, 41, the army's 6-ft., German-descended commander, angrily called for a showdown, and an unplanned, unwanted revolution...