Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced: "We would not mind even if U.S., British, French and Soviet troops-or some neutral countries-maintained minimum forces in West Berlin." Scarcely had Khrushchev said it when Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt rejected the "offer" out of hand. It was, declared Brandt, no more than a scheme to get Soviet troops into West Berlin and "cook the city over a slow fire...
...Sicilian scheme of things, nothing is so important for a girl as her honor-unless perhaps it is the size of her dowry. In the case of Vincenzina d'Urso, a willowy girl of 21 with chestnut hair, the dowry fell short of the expectations of the bridegroom's family. Words were exchanged, doors slammed; Vincenzina's marriage to Enzo d'Agostino, a 21-year-old truck driver, was abruptly called...
...only unfailing source of power and passion in the play is the bravura performance of Geraldine Page. Whether she is thrashing about in bed crying for her oxygen mask after a days-long vodka-and-goofball binge or clawing apart her hired paramour's tape-recorded blackmail scheme, Actress Page is just what the character she plays fears, "the tiger in the nerves jungle." Whenever she stalks offstage, the play exits with...
Administration officials saw little chance last night that Harvard would make use of the "Pomona Plan," a scheme offering a tax-exempt life income plan to persons giving donation to a university...
Cliffies reacted quickly. "Students didn't take the scheme as a personal insult since the whole idea is so ridiculous, especially the idea of Radcliffe girls having to pay for a date," Mrs. Margaret Sangree, Bertram Hall head resident, explained...