Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once the actual campaign starts in September, however, every club interested in practical politics will go into action. The only ones with a definite scheme in mind will be those supporting a Presidential candidate. The more permanent, more broadly based clubs, the HLU, the HYDC, and the HYRC, will have to decide which candidate to support actively...
...scope, the work is at once all-comprehensive and highly sensitive. It is simultaneously a drama of man against fate, man against man, and man against himself, skillfully woven into story. Yet the perceptive author is never lost in the grandiose scheme. The eye for delineation of habit and idiosyncrasy combine with a dramatist's craftsmanship to engross the reader...
Since the characters remain incomprehensible, the incidents in which they are involved and upon which they comment necessarily fail to have much coherence. Briefly, the plot deals with a pair of Brazilian promoters who hatch a scheme to build a dam in the hinterlands of the upper Amazon. In order to show their prospective customers that some work is actually progressing, they send out an American engineer and a young college student to make a preliminary survey. But the plane in which the two are travelling crashes, and the student, after a delirious conversation with a Bahian sea goddess, finally...
What makes Prime Minister Nehru a master of compromise is his distaste for simple defeat. But last week it looked as if Nehru would have to admit that his Congress Party scheme for revising India's state boundaries according to language blocs was a dead duck...
Risking New Delhi's current yellow jaundice epidemic (50,000 cases), ministers and party leaders hurried to the capital. Counseled Bombay Congress Party Boss S. K. Patil: shelve the entire states-reorganization scheme. Instead, Nehru, looking overstrained, his white hair curling from under his Gandhi cap, proposed an even bolder plan: merge existing states into vastly more populous units which would cut across linguistic lines...