Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Mr. Toynbee has accomplished a good deal in the way of shoring us up against the outflowing tide of time: with many bold insights, with a wealth of classical learning, with an imaginative scheme for the process of history and not least of all with a kind of international and worldly view that is so appropriate to our times, he has also given us a work filled with the most narrow-minded prejudices...
...help in winning West Germany permission from the Western European Union to arm the Bundeswehr with tactical atomic weapons. A few days later, during a twelve-hour session to settle the terms for the return of the rich Saarland to West Germany next year, Adenauer broached his atomic-weapons scheme to French Premier Guy Mollet. Mollet. obviously forewarned. sidestepped. But the question was still there to be answered: Shall renascent West Germany be allowed to have nuclear arms? Spaak politely refused...
Magdalen Madness. The "thing" that rocked Oxford (pop. 98,675) to its 12th century foundations last week was Duncan Sandys' audacious scheme, as Housing and Local Government Minister, for solving Oxford's appalling traffic problem. Ever since automobile and steelmaking factories sprang up around old Oxford's spires a generation ago, practically everybody has agreed that something must be done about diverting cars, trucks and buses from High Street before they shake down the ancient towers that line...
...road. High Street merchants began protesting that diversion of traffic from their doors would bankrupt them. A town planner was found who was ready to prove that the plan was unworkable. The university's ruling Hebdomadal Council met in deepest secrecy and significantly failed to endorse the new scheme. From his Christ Church study overlooking the meadow, the venerable Lord Cherwell, Sir Winston Churchill's top wartime brain-truster and now adviser for Britain's atomic-energy program, issued a statement solemnly urging that a Royal Commission be appointed to study the matter. After such a body...
...attempt to repay his tormenter with a knife, the clown tries to persuade the girl to leave her gorilla. Her refusal brings a philosophic reversal of his argument: he shows her that she is necessary to her owner and is fulfilling as important a place in the scheme of things as anyone else. The thought delights the girl, and she rejoins her man. But after a subsequent chance meeting in which the brute beats the clown to death the heroine becomes acutely sad, whimpering at any number of things that remind her of the clown. Her owner steals away...