Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still too early to say whether 1952 was going to be like 1949. Each summer, the onslaught of poliomyelitis reaches its peak in late August or September. Until they could plot that peak on their charts, Public Health statisticians were making no forecasts...
Another Middle East King lost his throne: 43-year-old Talal of Jordan, after a tragic eleven-month reign. Adored by his people, Talal fell victim not to a plot but to schizophrenia, which grew steadily worse despite treatment in Switzerland. This week Jordan's Parliament sorrowfully deposed him. He is succeeded by his son, Crown Prince Hussein, a thin, introspective adolescent. Interesting coincidence : Hussein and his cousin, King Feisal of Iraq, studied at Harrow at the same time, will each rule a Hashemite kingdom at the same time, on reaching 18, next...
...Shotgun Plot. Yet only in its core is it a gentle play. Coarse comic moods ripple its surface, and its three leading characters are emotional cripples. Pig-eyed Phil
...them taut with manias -Hogan's is for money, Josie's for sex, Jim's for liquor-then lets them slack with remorse. Hogan tells Josie that their landlord is going 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 till her father appears with witnesses. Josie reneges on the scheme when she finds 1) that her father has lied about the farm, 2) that in Jim's life there is room for only one woman...
...reinforce this slender plot, Island of Desire offers some pretty scenery in addition to its decorative leading lady. Also prominent in the small cast: Barbecue, the personable piglet discovered on the island by Lieut. Smythe...