Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years before World War I, plot and counterplot reached a rolling boil in Eastern Europe. In Russia, the famous double spy, Eugene Azeff, paid agent of the czarist secret police, took command of the terrorist branch of the revolutionary underground, and in between the writing of his reports to the police, masterminded the assassination of the Czar's uncle as well as two attempts on the life of the Czar himself. To this day it is not clear which side Azeff was really working for; perhaps Azeff, a great technician of conspiracy, never knew. In Austria-Hungary, Colonel Alfred...
Through Hans Gisevius, an anti-Nazi German intelligence officer, Dulles learned the details of the German underground's plot to assassinate Hitler. Dulles was never able to persuade the Allied powers to support the conspirators, but when the plot failed, he did succeed in saving Gisevius, who fled Germany with forged Gestapo papers and a Gestapo identification ring-all supplied...
...Hearst Herald & Express the plan seemed a part of a plot: Stoddard, it said, "is trying to put over a new type of teacher training which might .wreck the academic . . . future of a lot of our kiddies." As for the Ford Foundation, it too was suspect: its former president, Paul Hoffman, had caused no end of trouble backing a UNESCO teaching program. "Pink Socialism." cried the paper. "Hoffman is out of the Ford Foundation, but his spirit is still there...
...foreign priests, or Chinese priests who resist pressure to play ball with the Communist government. Against the dozen priests recently arrested in Shanghai (TIME, July 6) were lodged an assortment of blood & thunder charges backed up by a public exhibit of firearms, knives, invisible ink, code books, and murder-plot documents. Church officials in Hong Kong fear this is just the beginning: in China today are 349 foreign priests (about 40 in jail), 19 lay brothers and 196 nuns (as compared with 2,500 foreign priests, 100 brothers and 2,000 nuns when the Communists came to power). In addition...
...this point, the average movie plot might send the customers home, but this one goes right on to show Rugged Individualist Cooper falling in love with a native girl (charmingly played by U.S. Actress Roberta Haynes) who bears him a child out of wedlock.* Bored with light housekeeping in a grass hut, Cooper leaves the island, but returns during World War II and sees to it that his nearly grown-up daughter finds her Polynesian Mr. Right...