Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...project started. Almost half went to buy nearly two acres of high land on Great George Street, where Colles decided to build a roofed wooden reservoir of 10 by 60 by 140 feet holding 628,000 gallons. The rest was invested in the key part of Colics' scheme: a steam engine. Although there are a number of these devices in Europe, only one was ever shipped to America, to pump out a copper mine in New Jersey, and it was destroyed by fire in 1773. Colles decided, however, to build one of his own, and the 18-inch cylinder...
Officials in London may be excused if they are confused by the whole scheme. Figaro, the Barber of Seville, is a master of disguises and deceptions in a good cause. So, apparently, is his creator Beaumarchais...
...editor, this pair of entrepreneurs sought out Smellie, who was only 28 but had an expertise ranging from Terence to botany. Together with Macfarquhar, he worked out a new plan for an encyclopedia. He would follow the scheme most recently used by French Encyclopedist Denis Diderot?providing long articles on the arts and sciences, but without Diderot's polemical tone; and he would combine these long articles with brief alphabetical listings, as in the current British encyclopedias...
...searches for the worst play ever written, and finds "Springtime for Hitler," a drama about Adolph and Eva at Berchtesgarten by a crazed ex-Nazi living in the Village. Mostel is brilliant--wooing funds from adoring septuagenarians, manipulating his timid bookkeeper (Gene Wilder) into compliance with his scheme--the man is a genius...
...modest $80 million contribution to the World Bank to help the world's neediest nations. But an odd coalition of extreme left-and right-wing politicians launched a popular initiative against the proposal.When it came to a referendum last week, the Swiss resoundingly rejected the aid scheme, 713,855 to 550,557. The Tribune de Genève fretted that the outcome betrayed an "egoistic, isolationist trait in the Swiss character," but that hardly came as a surprise to critics of the country's preoccupation with money. They point out that the legal code inflicts heavier penalties...