Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hong Wong, a Vice Premier, who has already been replaced by a face familiar to Westerners: taciturn General Nam II, the ex-schoolteacher turned military dandy, who was the Reds' chief truce negotiator. The Communist radio last week accused ex-Foreign Minister Pak of complicity in the plot. Pak, party member since 1920, onetime party secretary and onetime student at Moscow's Lenin University, was not among those tried. His time may come later...
...strange, graceful birds, fashioned of metal tubes and plywood or canvas, were again hovering over Orlinghausen Field, a heather-dotted plot of land in Westphalia which most Germans know well. There Germany took to the air in gliders, after the World War I victors had decreed that the conquered must not fly powered planes. There future pilots came to train, in a kind of Luftwaffe kindergarten. After World War II, the victors prohibited flying again, but lifted the ban on gliders two years ago. Last week Orlinghausen was the scene of Germany's first postwar gliding championships...
...prison sentence that brought starvation, gangrene and the loss of ten toes, and hastened his death. Bill revived the weekly as a monthly, but turned it into a mouthpiece for the Chinese Reds. In recent issues, the Review called the Rosenberg trial a "frame-up," Point Four an "imperialist plot," and had "verified" U.S. "germ warfare" in Korea...
...misled me again," complains Von Papen. But he stayed at his post anyway "to limit the conflict," i.e., to keep the Turks from fighting on the side of the Allies. Eventually, Turkey broke diplomatic relations with Germany, and Von Papen returned to the Reich after the German officers' plot on Hitler's life had failed. He claims that he "fully expected to be arrested by the Gestapo," but Von Papen had done nothing to deserve such a fate, and was scarcely the man to walk open-eyed to his doom. When he got home, Hitler handed him another...
...meet the strikers' demands. To him they seemed not workers pursuing a normal course for bringing grievances to management's attention; they were mutineers." Matthews emerged from the dispute "an embittered man with a completely reversed outlook. He regarded himself as the victim of a Communist plot." Matthews became chief investigator for Martin Dies' new House Committee on Un-American Activities...