Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...engineering degree in 1930. With the onslaught of the Depression, however, Cavileer had to settle for a job with the YMCA. At the same time, however, a classmate of his by the name of Bud Galston, who had played J.V. football as an undergraduate, came to him with a scheme to keep statistics for the Crimson coaches...
With Mencken's aid, the evil doctor Sedgwick kidnaps Superman. Sedgwick plans to turn Superman into his lackey, then use him in a scheme to take over the world with "the most sophisticated brain in the western world," his computer Brainiac...
...type of loan that Japan wants to extend to China could be repaid partly in the most liquid of China's assets, oil. The trouble with this scheme is that Chinese oil is waxy, heavy and, given its low quality, overpriced. Says the president of one Japanese oil company: "The men in the industry are in an angry mood. They were never consulted. They were simply told they would have to pay the price for Japan-China trade and finance Japanese exports by buying Chinese...
...about lawyers, means of escape, the life histories of the other foreigners whose follies landed them in Sagmalcilar. Slapped with a sentence of four years and two months for possession (the prosecutor wanted life for the two kilos of hashish), Billy initially tries to play it cool, avoiding any scheme that might earn him yet another savage beating or a longer jail term. A primal fear now governs his actions and he carefully toes the line...
...Nazis' scheme is to smuggle to the Soviets lists of Britons who have supported the German war effort. Their hope is to inflame Stalin's deep distrust of his allies. The plan goes agley when the documents, hand-carried to Sweden, are used instead to blackmail English industrialists...