Word: schemed
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Devolution Scheme. The trouble was that while Labor had thought up the devolution scheme to keep Scotland part of the United Kingdom, the Scottish National Party shrewdly endorsed the measure as the first step toward total sovereignty. The S.N.P. endorsement troubled backbenchers on both sides of Parliament. Political leaders in economically deprived English regions began to talk of local assemblies of their own. Liberal M.P.s wondered whether a federal system for the entire U.K. might be a sensible idea. Furthermore, as parliamentary debate on the government's bill opened, the original devolution question became mired in a muddy loch...
...Sable's charmingly deluding scheme, which becomes, of course, Fuller's wonderfully beguiling play, actor and crook are one. Posing as a family friend who is at home in England for the first time since he was seven, Sable goes to the country estate of Lady Beatrice Harlston to steal some of her plentiful jewels. Take the goods and run was the direction given to Sable by Harry Mercer, his surly subordinate, and Brenda, his impatient moll. But Sable overstays his visit, tempted to steal not the jewels but the suspicious and susceptible heart of the Lady's daughter Julia...
Just as in a successful crime scheme, it is the well-wrought details that enable the perpetrator to get away cleanly, so in Softly Stealing it is the lyrics to the 19 songs that provide the great escape. Fuller's words can be alternately funny, as they are in "Taxing Deductions," the theme song of the "almost clever criminologist," Inspector Quentin Thornblade, who tries to think like the great Sable in an effort to outwit his criminal mind, or haunting as in "The Runaways," Brenda's plea to Sable to return home, or romantic as in "A Perfect Stranger...
...disproves the common notion that truth is stranger than fiction, for the outlandish twists and turns of Cussler's novel would defy detection by even the most dogged Woodstein. Loosely translated, the book is the inspirational saga of how a top-secret group of brilliant government physicists devises a scheme to save the world from nuclear destruction, realizes the plan requires large quantities of a mysterious element unknown to even the best high-school chemistry textbooks, traces the world's only supply of the element to the cargo hold of the sunken Titanic, miraculously raises the hulk from the depths...
...could be that some kind of "plot" in this case was not altogether a flight of Amin's paranoid imagination. Some observers in Kampala believe that he ferreted out a scheme involving dissident soldiers and pilots and ordered a military campaign against a border village in which hundreds of tribesmen may have been killed; Amin has made no mention of this. In any event, the world has only his word that the ministers and the archbishop were involved in some plot. He merely described the "accident" as "a punishment of God, because God does not want to make others...