Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This scheme had obvious defects, the chief of which was that Sitting Bull and most of his followers had already ridden off to Canada. But the Army put it into operation with vast enthusiasm. In the fall and winter of 1876 cavalrymen seized 8,567 ponies from baffled, friendly Indians, at Camp Robinson, Neb., and the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Indian Agencies...
...past our education has lacked certain important elements. One of these is a program to impress the young man and woman with a sense of responsibility to the national society. ... If it were simply taken for granted as part of our educational scheme that every man devote a year of his life directly to the nation, not only would we keep ourselves in fair national physical condition but we would have presented our people with at least one common experience, one duty common to all. From the rich playboy to the sweating coal miner, each man would have this...
...well-in restaurants. But many more did not. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia screamed at Washington: "You can't feed headlines to children!" He proposed that restaurant eaters be made to give up red ration points for meat served to them. Said the OPA of the Mayor's scheme: "Too late...
...scheme of separate surrender was no artificial fabrication; it had its roots in the fears and beliefs of the German soldiery and people. On the U.S. First Army front, many German units seriously expected to join the U.S. battle line, march with the Americans against the Russians. An entire German regiment had kept its arms with this end in view, was genuinely astonished when the Americans declined to cooperate...
Belmont, a greyish, thin-lipped man in his 60s, calls his painting Color-Music Expressionism. "Inherent synesthetic perceptions" (granted, he explains, to only 5% of humanity) account for his seeing colors when he hears musical sounds. He has supplemented his natural gift with a complex mathematical scheme, based on the comparative vibrations of sounds and light rays.* A ray of red, for example, has about 477,000,000,000 vibrations per second. Its tonal equivalent, to Belmont, is the key of C. Similarly, the key of D is orange; E, yellow; F, yellow-green, etc. Thus, a dirge is painted...