Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looking a little bit haggard came up to the money-man. "He announced the $1000 petitions all wrong", she told him. "All wrong, it doesn't work that way at all." Soon Seymour was brought over to talk to Gladys Roberts. She explained the $1000 fund-raising petition scheme to him and he listened carefully, nodding his head...
...fair solution to the copyright problem." But the Supreme Court has strengthened the CATV bargaining position when negotiations resume. The cable owners are now no longer threatened with a demand for retroactive payments, and future fees might well be less onerous than CATV had expected. One possible settlement scheme: each CATV firm would contribute 2% or, so of its gross into a pool to be divided annually by the copyright-holding film studios and networks...
...Bizarre Scheme. Perutz studied molecular structure by analyzing X-ray photographs of crystallized hemoglobin. Scattered and deflected by the atoms within, the X-rays form a pattern of light and dark spots on a film behind the crystal. By patient mathematical analysis of thousands of variations of this pattern (each produced by a Perutz technique of substituting mercury "tag" atoms for different atoms within the hemoglobin molecule), the structure of the complex molecule was carefully pieced together...
...diffident, Perutz began to probe the hemoglobin structure in 1937, after he came to Cambridge as a refugee graduate student. His work was interrupted during the war because he was interned as an enemy alien; then he was released to work on a bizarre and impractical scheme to tow Arctic ice islands into the North Atlantic to serve as airbases...
Hogan tells Josie that their landlord is about to sell the farm out from under them and makes her agree to a shotgun plot: she will get Jim drunk, lure him to bed, and keep him there until her father appears with witnesses. The scheme backfires in a tender, boozy nightlong sharing of longings and confidences. Jim falls asleep, little-boy-fashion, with his head in Josie's lap, but not before revealing that there is room in his spent life for only one woman, his dead mother. Dawn finds him, the father and the daughter locked again...