Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everything west of the Appalachians for itself. It was clear, Jay concluded, that France regarded its alliance with the U.S. as a license to swindle its junior partner-a conclusion powerfully supported, says Historian Morris, by documents preserved in the Quai d'Orsay that spell out a French scheme to split up the 13 states and return some of them to England...
...looked at sections of American life which are by many standards pathological and abnormal. In these unlikely places and among these people he saw morality, human dignity, and a stubborn, indefinable kind of hope. These paradoxical discoveries at first surprised him; they did not fit the accepted conceptual scheme. Then he accepted what he saw and turned the investigation around. What started out as a study of the sick "subjects" became in part an investigation of the scientists, of "the sane people's" conceptions of childhood, education, and health, and of the psychiatric enterprise itself...
Before all scores are settled, Samantha discovers who is not who, abhors her demotion to second fiddle in a menage a trois, and quickly improvises a plan to murder her stepmother. Max prefers his own scheme, which is to eliminate both women, leaving himself as Ingrid's sole beneficiary. Ashes departs considerably from the French novel on which it is based, but Director J. Lee Thompson smoothly stretches out the tension of a creepy bathtub sequence, followed by an explosive climax involving a booby-trapped safe. Finally, though, this who'll-do-it must be appreciated chiefly...
...violence, without confronting political and economic problems, can force the Communists to accept an inherently intolerable solution. The Times also reported that American officers were puzzled at the Communist refusal to yield ground in the battle on the Chuprong Massif. Apparently the Vietcong are not using a similar conceptual scheme...
...poor Tibetians?...I understand that 60% of the Vietnamese land is still owned by the old landlords. Really! Land reform ought to be put through at once. We have to give the peasant a stake in his own country -- something to fight for...I think the Mekong power scheme is terribly exciting. It's one of the world's great power sources and the whole area could benefit from it. We should pop in a UN defense now to protect the scheme." As for American policy, she maintained that there's absolutely no cause for pulling...