Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge real estate salesman's $10-100 million scheme to build a super-structure over one-sixth of the Charles River Basin stirred up bitter controversy at a City Council hearing yesterday...
Chile 30 years ago plumped for social security modeled on advanced West European systems. Now an elaborate scheme with such frills as pensions at 100% of pay, social security costs 28% of the budget...
Berceo, a mystic poet, expressed the "absolute harmony of heaven and earth through exact poetical language," Guillen said. Within a strict rhyme scheme, Berceo described a world in which unity and order were maintained by Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary...
Boulukos insisted that their scheme was not dreamed up on the spur of the moment. "We've been thinking about it ever since the first Sputnik was launched, and Armistice Day seemed like a logical time to send the wire," he said...
...with a solid calendar of basketball games, boxing matches and fencing competitions. Neither the appreciative spectators, gazing at the soaring, concrete-ribbed dome free of any obstructing pillars, nor the art critics, who praised it as "a masterpiece of creative genius ... perfection," would believe that Nervi had no esthetic scheme in mind. But it was a fact that he had merely worked out an orderly system for transmitting the flow of the great dome's stress along the most logical and economical lines...