Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jostling and confident pack of those who always see but never seize the glittering tumbleweed of fortune. But after toiling as a steamboat wiper, a strikebreaker, a manufacturer's agent and a bond salesman, he switched to real estate and finally reached Nevada with a grandiose scheme, later carried out at a profit of almost half a million dollars, to peddle practically the whole eastern shore of Lake Tahoe. Nevada, at the moment, was in bad shape. Its big ranches were almost all in the hands of the banks, the cattle market had collapsed, and business was in depression...
...veteran Alpinist, Benuzzi conceived the scheme of walking out of the poorly guarded camp, scaling Mount Kenya, and then-since there was little prospect of getting back to Italian-controlled areas-of blandly returning to captivity. His scheme had no practical end: it was simply Benuzzi's idea of self-expression...
...seemingly endless international tension. In American education, the public has found reflections of Communism it can attack more safely and successfully than those in the distant and powerful Soviet state. It matters not that the very vulnerability of "red professors" is an indication of the irrelevance to the total scheme of Soviet conspiracy. A "red" is a "red," in the public mind, whether he is killing Americans in Korea or dodging Congressional questions in Washington. The desire for a scapegoat makes events of the thirties just as appalling as those of the fifties. It turns liberal into Communist, and past...
...people stand for Perón is that there is no hunger in Argentina. One of Perón's driving emotions-and this helps to explain his virulent anti-Americanism-is his envy of the industrial U.S. and a desire to imitate it. To finance the industrialization scheme, he bought his farmers' wheat and meat at controlled prices, sold them on the world market for whatever the traffic would bear. Too much of the money ended up in grafters' pockets, uneconomical industries or pipe dreams such as the projects to build atomic bombs and jet fighters...
After 30 months of study, the commission last week produced a plan to 1) fight erosion and beautify the falls, 2) make them produce more electric power. The scheme calls for underwater gates, a mile above the falls, which will provide an even flow and will enable engineers to slow down the water. If the project is approved by the U.S. Congress and Canada's Parliament, Niagara will run full blast from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. during the tourist season. At night it will be slowed to half speed, with hydroelectric plants harnessing the excess water. Result...