Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ghana, for one, lobbied to have South Africa expelled from the U.N. That scheme raised some fascinating questions. By Ghana's rule that South Africa is not fit to be a member because it defies U.N. principles, could Red China, which actually waged war against the U.N. in Korea, ever attain U.N. membership? Could Russia and the regime of Janos Kadar, which defied the U.N. on the Hungarian question, retain their U.N. seats? On such matters, the African states seemed resolutely dedicated to a double standard...
...heart lies in the food business, not in the grocery store," Spa chef Homer Schwartz says of his boss; but in Bartley's final reorganization scheme, it was the stationery shop, not the drygoods-and-deli that made way for his new hamburger grill. Since June, Bartley and Schwartz have been offering local customers Long Island style full 1/4-pound, ground-chuck hamburgers for a novel 48 cents...
...characterizations in the movie offer a final disappointment; they are either stereotyped or confused. Mueller, the German colonel who dreams up the scheme to plant Bardone, is the usual German colonel who spouts the usual phrases about "a just war," and a soldier's duty. "If you'd stayed in the army," he tells Bardone, "you'd be a real colonel by now." The most ambiguous figure of all is Giuseppe-Bardone-General della Rovere. The character-delineation of an imposter is hard to begin with, but the ambiguity of de Sica's role is compounded by the fact that...
...Russian scheme to internationalize Berlin, in exchange for as yet undefined guarantees of Western access, he can relay a remark of President Kennedy's that should be appreciated by Khrushchev, famous for his similes. Said Kennedy to Gromyko: "You have offered to trade us an apple for an orchard. We do not do that in this country...
...Advanced Study, whose security clearance for participation in U.S. nuclear development was withdrawn in 1954. "Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has now changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of government, not of scientists." But in the Oppenheimer scheme of things, soldiers, unlike scientists, apparently do not enjoy the right to leave political decisions to their governments. Said Oppenheimer: "I would like to see a general strike by the officers of all the armed forces on earth, refusing to drop nuclear bombs or to push the fatal buttons...