Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some Soviet delegates were hinting that Moscow might pull out of the U.N. altogether if it did not get its way. Moreover, as a lure, there were in fact two troikas now being proposed: Moscow's original demand for a trifurcate Secretary-General and a so-called "compromise" scheme of three under secretaries (one Communist, one Western, one neutral) to run the U.N. as a directorate. Any practical difference between the two plans could be discerned only by Communist or heavily clouded neutralist eyes. Still another variation of it was heartily plugged by Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana delegation...
...heritage has been beneficial, Niebuhr pointed out. The same affirmation--that history has meaning--which gave rise to the West's "historical dynamism" also brought on, for example, the corrupted scheme of values in which every event is related to divine will...
Sandy's poem (Part I) uses no straightforward stanza scheme. Instead, words of related sound appear in the same line quite consistently. "Now they palaver on forever" is a good line in its own right, and it has the further virtue of participating in the structure of the poem. Berman, on the other hand, inserts the following couplet in the midst of conventionally rhymed lines: "The thirst for melted fire that you had/Locked in you like the blueness of you blood...
...disturbance. And there the Justice Department launched a new legal assault on Racist Leander Perez, political boss of neighboring St. Bernard parish. Last year St. Bernard set up a special school to handle white students boycotting integrated schools in New Orleans. If St. Bernard persists in this "evasive scheme,'' said the Justice Department in a suit to halt the practice, its own schools should be integrated by court order...
American Motors had already behaved like a maverick by offering to share company profits with U.A.W. workers. The profit-sharing scheme-which George Romney prefers to call "progress sharing"-clearly undercut the position of the Big Three. But in return, the Big Three undercut American Motors by agreeing to accept a continuation of cost-of-living and productivity increases-clauses that Romney insisted must be abolished as a condition of profit sharing...