Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stalin's Scheme. Before the Soviet troops entered the city, most Berliners had been sustained by the hope that the Americans and British would not allow the city to fall into Russian hands; under daily attack by U.S. and British bombers, they still spoke of the Americans and British as liberators rather than conquerors. Ryan's account of the incredible blunders and political naivete that destroyed the hope is one of the most engrossing portions of the book...
...core of religion in a world where life was hard, society was static and hope lay in the hereafter. Patience meant resignation-a necessary quality for tillers of the soil and fishers of the sea, whose control over what happened to them was marginal. In such a frustrating scheme of things, outbursts of personal rage must have been no small social problem. The Ship of Fools, a 15th century compilation of doggerel homiletics by a German satirist named Sebastian Brant, warns that...
...been unable during his 17-month tour in office to translate his 53% electoral mandate into significant reforms. Though his Christian Democrats dominate the House of Deputies, FRAP-in combination with the Radicals-holds the upper hand in the Senate and has emasculated Frei's copper program. This scheme aims to make Chile the world's No. 1 copper producer and earn an additional $300 million in foreign exchange to finance Frei's sweeping proposals for land reform-which themselves are stymied in the legislature. Heartened by a recent by-election victory in Valparaiso...
...riding high on most bestseller lists, with 70,000 copies in print. Also as usual, the hero is firm-chinned, clean-limbed-this time a young American economist named John Craig who, armed only with good manners and innocence, is recruited to help thwart an ingenious Communist scheme to penetrate U.S. security. The plot involves a trip to the Greek island of Mykonos, and MacInnes evokes a picture of its windswept charm, just as in previous books she evoked the charm of Brittany, Venice and Berlin. Despite the current mania for Bondian gadgetry, her spies still hide their microfilms...
...story like heavy eyelids. In other office buildings, Rudolph has let ductwork swarm like vines over the fa?ade, set his stairwells out from the walls like turrets. And in his soon-to-be-completed Creative Arts Center at Colgate University, he has tried an even more daring scheme: he has turned the building inside...