Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taurus. Another U.S. Plane will be shot down. After a secret three-day session of the National Security Council at Augusta, Georgia, the Administration will announce that the nation will scrap the old scheme of massive retaliation for a new program of, in Mr. Dulles' words, "tit for tat." No sign of the maids yet, but Bentinck-Smith shouts up that he thinks he has found a likely donor for the new theatre...
...bank to undertake a sweeping review of "the entire field of cold war economic strategy." Secretary of State Dulles is pressing for a huge expansion of U.S. investments abroad; Foreign Operations Director Harold Stassen. whose department is slated to go out of business next summer, has proposed an ambitious scheme which is already being called "A Marshall Plan for Asia...
Ever since electricity came into its own, harnessing the potential of the tides has been one of man's pet schemes.* It remained for the power-short French to translate a major scheme into action. Last week Electricité de France, the nationalized power combine, announced that work would start next spring on a $57 million tidal project near Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast...
Unjust Will. According to Jones, he met Patrick a year before, and the two men began almost immediately to work out their scheme. The two men decided to rewrite the old man's will, for Mr. Patrick thought it "unjust" that Rice wanted to leave most of his estate to found an educational institution in Texas. One day Rice walked in on the conspirators while they were going about their forgery in his apartment, but he did not know what they were doing. He apologized for disturbing them, left the room quietly...
...decided to shut down the Bradfordsville high school and to transfer its students to Lebanon, ten miles away. The board tried to explain that it had only one motive for its action: it merely wanted to provide better facilities through consolidation. But to the citizens of Bradfordsville. the whole scheme seemed some sort of plot...