Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murderer who is cheated out of the fruits of his crime, the theft of valuable rubies, and waits fifteen years before returning to the scene, having acquired a moustache and a new, naive, wealthy British wife in the interim, to continue his search for the gems. Since the entire scheme, and a broad hint as to the outcome, are brought out in the first act, it takes worthy performances by the murderer and his unsuspecting wife, who is being methodically driven out of her mind by her spouse, to sustain the terror and suspense in Hamilton's lines...
...report of the vast scheme of national defense and of its astronomical cost of about $10 billion a year [TIME, Feb. 25]. And you raise the question: is it American? May I, one of the few German anti-militarists, give you an answer? Surely it's not American. It is pure Prussian militarism. . . . Generals and admirals are not in the habit of retiring willingly from their gilded honors into grey civilian life. The American people were able to create within two years the finest and most powerful army, navy and air force ever seen in history, besides stuffing their...
When war came the Garrson boys were ready with a good scheme for quick-&-easy profits. With no assets except a borrowed letterhead they established the Erie Basin Metal Products Co. Then they grabbed a $3,000,000 contract from the Chemical Warfare Service to produce mortar shells, and went to town...
...seats in the House, but failed to gain a majority in the Senate. The chief congressional issue: re-servicing of bond issues floated in the U.S. in 1927-28. Apra wants to pay up, then get more U.S. credits. Apra's cotton and sugar baron opponents fight any scheme that would give Apra funds for its industrializing and irrigation plans...
...individuals into other women's groups so that when the occasion arises you can influence others. . . ." A gregarious, balding surgeon, Dr. Shoulders raises Tennessee walking horses which, he says, "are like me-slow-gaited and dependable." In the classic A.M.A. tradition, he views socialized medicine as a scheme of "political crackpots . . . enemies of freedom . . . importers of alien philosophies." Dr. Fishbein might have been soft-pedaled, but the A.M.A. was stubbornly sticking to its tune...