Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promptly pronounced "outrageous" in the Pentagon. There were other items in the Soviet package that proposed even more one-sided disarmament of the West: a reduction in forces that would leave the U.S. with too few men to keep up its NATO commitments, and a scheme for setting up ground control posts that would bring every part of Europe and the U.S. under surveillance-except the Russian heartland...
...Harvard tutorial system represents only an attempt to combat the impersonality of the University, it is partially successful. If tutorial, particularly sophomore group tutorial, restricted its activities to sociological therapy, its present organizational scheme might be justifiable. As part of the process of Harvard education, however, sophomore group tutorial is a failure...
...problem, fearing to jeopardize either military adequacy or diplomatic bonds. Secretary Dulles has assured Bonn and Paris that America will not reduce her NATO manpower, thereby attempting to allay the inevitable neutralistic sentiment which would result from such action. But, being committed to nuclear emphasis in its general defense scheme, America is hard put to modify this concept as applied to Western Europe...
England's Piano Sonata, like the Crawford piece, was in two movements, a scheme more composers might well experiment with. England unified each movement through consistent application of one device: the first movement, rather rhapsodic in character, exploited the ornament known as the inverted double mordent; the second, clearly structured, utilized a repeated-note pattern...
...Leites' former classmates at the New York High School of Music and Art, decided to start a counterrevolution in the musical taste of U.S. teenagers. Leites scraped together $45, got i.ooo "I Like Ludwig" buttons made up within two days. At first the boys thought their little scheme might never get off the ground, but when they put their buttons up for sale (15¢ each) at the High School of Music and Art, all 1,000 were gone in a matter of hours...