Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bevan, the Yalu River bombings represented a new Washington extend-the-war plot, fiendishly timed to take place just when the Korean truce hinged on but one unsolved issue...
...Judiz Mendi into a memorial, to be built on the spot. Then the Jewish delegates, followed by members of the town council, walked to the old cemetery. Quietly they chanted the archaic Castilian of the Sephardic prayers for the dead. As they prayed, workmen in a corner of the plot began to dig the foundations of a new building, wounding the soil of Judiz Mendi for the first time in 460 years...
Where's Charley? dresses up its pratfall plot with actual Oxford settings, such pleasant songs as My Darling, My Darling, and a flashy Brazilian dance number in which Bolger imagines he is a dashing Spanish don. Besides Dancer Bolger, the picture borrows three other leading players from the 1948 Broadway musicomedy Where's Charley?, on which it is based: Allyn McLerie as Charley's comically deadpan girl friend; Horace Cooper as her fiercely mustachioed, fortune-hunting Uncle Spettigue, who woos Charley's aunt in a series of galloping Mack Sennett chases; and Robert Shackleton as Charley...
...Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer penned a letter to a House maritime subcommittee. Sawyer accused Comptroller General Warren of making "silly and untrue" statements. Wrote Sawyer: Warren simply wanted to create "a public impression that the Comptroller General, a knight in white armor, is defending the taxpayers from some nefarious plot to which I and the Maritime Board are parties ... If a private citizen makes a bad contract, he is not allowed three years later to say that he ... will not go through with it. The same should apply to the Government...
This Way Out. In Dennison, Ohio, Convict William Kimble, 26, told police who rearrested him that he knew nothing about any escape plot until "I saw a line of guys at the window and got in line myself...