Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...psychology of it-associating beer with sun and sky and clouds and birds instead of with human woe and degradation and tears-fits perfectly into the liquor sellers' scheme...
After 1958, when a twin pipeline is completed to the eastern Negev, the whole project will increase Israel's irrigable area by 100,000 acres, or 50%, and there will be land for 66,000 newcomers. Unfortunately, the Negev pipeline scheme is far from being the answer to Israel's search for self-sufficiency in food. Last fiscal year, Israel's best economically since its birth seven years ago, imports of $289,500,000 greatly exceeded exports of $881 million. The agricultural output resulting from the new Negev farms will cut the huge deficit by only...
...time came when Nehru, reluctantly yielding to pressure from India's many language groups, appointed a State Reorganization Committee to advise "on the realigning of states within India. By skillful gerrymandering, Tara Singh worked out a scheme for a Punjabi-speaking state of 35,458 square miles, containing a population of 12 million, with the Sikhs in a slight minority. "We multiply faster than Hindus and are more virile," said Tara Singh. "In ten years we will be in an absolute majority, leaving the soft-fleshed Hindus to trail behind." Two months ago Tara Singh's party, regaining...
Since the leading Distributists seemed to be Catholics, Witcutt began to study the Roman Catholic system of thought. "It at once attracted me," he writes. "Here was an intellectual scheme moulded and shaped, it seemed, to include every detail. One had only to make an act of faith and one was settled, intellectually, for life. No more questions need be asked...
...accusations," she said, "were a terrible shock, and smashed my career." But her devotion never abated. Scarcely a month later she tried to put up $1,000 for the defense of eleven first-string Communist leaders on trial in Manhattan, only to have the party blast her "shabby promotion scheme." But last week she announced that the Communists were for giving her at last. In Washington she called a press conference, sponsored by the party-line Progressive Party, blithely reported that she had been entertained at an "excellent" lunch by Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Georgy N. Zarubin, who personally...