Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news from London last week was that five Prime Ministers of the British Commonwealth, assembled in their first conference of World War II, had not agreed to play Big-Power politics in the postwar world. Instead, their only agreement so far had been on a scheme which might be a check against Big-Power politics...
...There is a great scheme, I am told, to take over a loch in Scotland and feed the fish artificially. If that ever comes to pass there will be no hope for the nation's bellyache...
...mapped out a program of big-budget pictures. Eventually, M.G.M. London under Korda and Goetz will turn out 16 of them yearly -a figure without precedent in England. Last week Ben Goetz was in Manhattan recruiting actors, writers, etc. for their big job. He was working on a scheme for an international talent commuting system, between Hollywood and Elstree...
...goal of Pacific regionalism and stronger Empire ties. Their Canberra Agreement asserted ANZAC rights to be consulted on all Pacific dispositions. They must have moved too fast to suit President Roosevelt or old Cordell Hull; the reception in Washington was cold and silent. Though Whitehall kept very quiet, the scheme's reception in London was probably not much better...
...liked by his subordinates. Always in his mind and on his lips was the conviction that the Army was the purest, finest, most Argentine thing in Argentina. While in charge of troops in Mendoza in 1941, he started a "crusade for spiritual renovation"-which worked out as a scheme to staff the Argentine Government with idealistic, hard-working and deeply nationalistic young Army officers...