Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parts of Korea. Key point of the Communist proposal was that a joint armistice commission should be set up with, apparently, no authority to inspect anything but the 2½-mile buffer zone between the armies. A deadlock immediately ensued. Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy rejected the Red scheme as toothless. Lieut. General Nam II, the deadpan North Korean commander, rejected the U.N. plan as a "brazen interference" with the internal affairs of North Korea...
...following their scheme, it is true, the inhabitants of St. Benedict's have been persecuted. Building inspectors made them add costly improvements to the Center under penalty of having it condemned. Lately, these same men have tried to get into the homes of Feeney and several of his teachers for the same reason. The cases are now being fought out in court...
...London, Mrs. Adrian Conan Doyle, daughter-in-law of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, announced a new dollar-earning scheme. She will bring the Baker Street room of Sherlock Holmes, assembled for exhibition at the Festival of Britain, on a tour of the U.S. next spring...
...goal the Office of Student Employment, mostly under pressure provided by the far-reaching Monro, has evolved the totally new student porter plan. Still in its experimental phase, the porter plan is now giving steady employment at 80 cents an hour for approximately 70 men. If successful, the porter scheme will enable the Office to give incoming freshmen assurance that they will get needed jobs...
Churchill would accept such a scheme remained to be seen. But Mossadegh showed willingness to stay on in Washington to negotiate, and Anthony Eden, in his first act as Foreign Secretary, called home Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd from Teheran to talk things over. In Teheran, after the British elections, crowds tore down the street signs on Churchill Avenue. The government ordered them back up, and blamed the whole thing on the outlawed Communist Tudeh Party...