Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April, when assassins murdered Mossadegh's police chief, the dragnet immediately went out for Zahedi, who took sanctuary in the Majlis for six weeks. When Mossadegh dissolved the Majlis, Zahedi fled secretly to the home of the commander of the Shah's Imperial Guards and continued to plot against Mossadegh...
...suggested, with the fervor of a real-estate agent, that the Vandenberg house, with its panoramic view of the city, might be just the thing for him. But Ridgway had his eye on Bradley's Quarters I and wasn't interested. When word of Collins' plot reached him, Twining hastily changed his plans, moved into the Vandenberg house and ordered his deputy, General...
...Giorgio. In young Francis, who had dedicated himself to God and poverty, Clare knew at once that she had found the inspiration of her life. She appealed to him to help her leave the worldly world, as he had done. Together the two future saints concocted a holy plot. On Palm Sunday she appeared in church with her mother and sisters; the people of Assisi had never seen the fair-haired Clare so beautiful or so finely dressed. They never saw her again. Late the next night she stole from her father's palace by a back door...
...always tried to transform La Boca, along with the rest of his city. A foundling raised by a dockworker, Quinquela started to draw with charcoal before he could read or write, sold his first paintings for five pesos each. Eventually, he earned enough money to buy a half-acre plot, donated it to the government on condition that it build a school there. He filled the school with gay murals, painted doors, benches and tables in gaudy circus colors, even did the blackboards in pink and blue...
...that were all, The Narrows would be merely the retelling of a sordid tabloid standby. But Author Petry, serious as she is about her seriously told plot, almost lets it take second place to other and better things: Negro life in broken-down Bumble Street, Aunt Abbie's sturdy effort to clothe her existence in dignity. Best of all is the rich parallel story of little Malcolm Powther, the dignified Treadway butler, and his blowsy, handsome, blues-singing, two-timing wife. Link and Camilo have a fictional survival period of one publishing season at best. Had Author Petry stuck...