Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loud-shouting females who make up the "Episcopal Women's Caucus" represent no one but themselves. Had the scheme of the would-be priestesses at the recent Louisville convention [Oct. 15] been brought to fruition, the church would have split and the cause of Christ would have been dealt a grievous blow. Neither God nor the church has "turned down" these people. The church has always provided a myriad of ministries for women, which are both orthodox insofar as their theology is concerned and appropriate for the special skills and backgrounds that women alone can supply. We need nuns...
...appoint a special prosecutor. He said: "It's certainly far more incongruous to expect people [meaning the Administration] to investigate themselves." To erase the problem, some sponsors say they would be willing to have the prosecutor named by all 15 active judges of the district court. Such a scheme was backed by Chesterfield Smith, president of the American Bar Association...
Instead of Rosemonde, he provides us with Francis and Vincent Silverware, by comparison uninteresting principals. Salamandre is about Rosemonde, who refuses to be pinned down to any describable ideology. But in Retour,Tanner has turned the scheme upside down. Retour is not about the Silvestres, but, as he warns, it is about their words...
...world" if the fighting continued-a warning that was to be underlined dramatically three days later by the superpower confrontation. Malik stressed that "time will not wait." The resolution passed, 14-0, with China not participating. The Chinese refrained from voting all week to protest "the collusive scheme" of the two superpowers...
According to the SEC, Smith and some associates devised a complex scheme to convert Westgate's most profitable assets to their own use. Smith supposedly 1) allowed the conglomerate to buy up companies of questionable value at grossly inflated prices, 2) transferred control of the acquisitions to other parts of his financial machine, and 3) used these grossly inflated assets to secure huge loans from U.S. National. In other instances, Smith is charged with selling solid Westgate holdings at bargain prices to other companies under his control and financing the deals with loans from the bank...