Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ceiling: the whole thing was too reminiscent of the Queen's strange attachment for Greet Hofmans, the faith healer who became a sort of a nuisance in the palace (TIME, June 25, 1956). Unable to dissuade the Queen from granting the audience, her advisers hit upon a scheme that at least might assure the nation that she would not succumb to any spell again. It surrounded her with a protective guard of some of the nation's top air force and scientific...
Fair Division. World Bank President Eugene Black welcomed the idea, and both New Delhi and Karachi accepted the bank's good offices. But years of hard work failed to temper nationalistic passions. Suggestion after suggestion fell through; scheme after scheme foundered in a sea of mutual antagonism. Doggedly, the World Bank continued its efforts, and last month in Washington won agreement from India and Pakistan to a fair division of the water flow until March...
...when he began to receive commissions for structures few engineers would then have cared to tackle. As early as 1933 he had covered the marketplace at Algeciras with a 156-ft. spherical dome, a shelter still ranked as a classic of shell construction. The next year he evolved a scheme for the Madrid Hippodrome, in which a series of soaring shell roofs (see color) were so delicately cantilevered that a thin, vertical tie rod behind the stands was all that was needed to keep them in equilibrium. In Spain's Civil War, the Hippodrome was subjected to trial...
...Gadfly will probably die from that which it seeks to cure: student apathy. Whether this is good or bad seen in light of the Big Scheme of things, frankly, I don't know. The guy at the Spa who sold me my issue of Gadfly said that he had sold more copies of it than he had of Playboy. But I'm not worried. Anyway, I can always sublimate my desires and adjust...
Chou Enlai, too, reflected Peking's second thoughts about the economic impact of the people's communes: he made no mention of the once highly touted scheme to herd city dwellers as well as peasants into the communes. And he was clearly fearful that China's hard-pressed citizens in the cities might begin to ask why, if the countryside was producing such vast quantities of food, their rice bowls got no fuller. "It is also possible," warned Chou in what would have been heresy in a lesser official, "that output increases of certain industrial and agricultural...