Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shastri, and Finance Minister Morarji Desai -to resign, ostensibly to reorganize the party and revitalize its strength among the masses. But it is generally felt that Nehru actually intended the move as a ruse to shake out of the Cabinet all potential contenders for his post. Wise to the scheme, the ousted ministers set about building up personal followings for a succession fight...
...Pakistan, India's Prime Minister Nehru was blamed as "the real thief," though the press also hinted that the "satanic" plot might have been "conceived in the so-called intellectual cells in a faraway Western capital," meaning Washington. Indians were equally sure that the affair was a Pakistani scheme to incite Kashmiris against them...
...goal is to drill through the earth's crust to see what the earth below is made of, and Adams questioned whether conventional drilling methods could reach much deeper than five miles, one-quarter of the desired distance. The doubting physicist worked out a radically different scheme for doing...
There is one great difficulty with de Gaulle's scheme. It assumes Germany will be willing to make concessions on agricultural prices and at the same time settle for a broad statement on the Kennedy tariff negotiations. If, as seems likely, Germany refuses to accede, de Gaulle's plans would be seriously undermined...
...longer enough," he says, "the liberal arts tradition is dead or dying"-a victim of the pressure for college work in high school and for graduate work in college. "Sooner or later the college as we know it will find that it has no proper place in the scheme of things," says Barzun...