Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bundle of heroin into circulation tout de suite. Desist came along on a different plane. The trio met in New York and went to Columbus, where Le Franc and Nebbia planned to take delivery on the long-overdue shipment. U.S. narcotics agents, who had been tipped off about the scheme, shadowed them all the way. They had hardly reached Columbus before they realized they were being followed, and hightailed it back to New York. Desist left immediately for France; Le Franc and Nebbia stayed behind in Manhattan...
...propensity to consume partly through its scheme of taxation, partly by fixing the rates of interest, and partly, perhaps, in other ways...
...computations correct. Now the dream of docking two spacecraft while they whirl through their curving courses promised to be no more of a problem than parking a compact car; rescue of astronauts adrift in space became a definite possibility. A manned orbiting laboratory suddenly seemed more than an imaginative scheme; a space station that can be constructed aloft seemed within man's grasp. And the men of Gemini 7 who had blasted off eleven days earlier to spend a full two weeks above the atmosphere had vastly extended the known limits of human endurance...
...Simple, modest and dignified-those were the words I had to go on," Johnson said. His scheme, after six months of study, was indeed simplicity itself. On a one-acre lot still to be cleared, he proposed erecting an open box with narrow openings at either end, "like a pair of magnets about to clamp together but held apart by some powerful force." Material for the 50-ft.-sq., 30-ft.-high sanctuary will be unadorned concrete-"the material...
...drawings submitted for this scheme are simple to the point of being diagrammatic," observed the jury in 1957. "Nevertheless, we are convinced that they present a concept of an opera house that is capable of becoming one of the great buildings of the world...