Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of State Seward, as the "unseen hand" and "evil genius" who would not press for the immediate abolition of slavery. The dissidents, all congressional extremists, met secretly so as not to broadcast their lack of confidence in the Government at a perilous moment. Lincoln found out about the plot, maneuvered the extremists into backing down...
...Culprits? Many newspapers currycombed the woods for scapegoats. In the influential Emporia Gazette, William L. White angrily charged the war to an Administration plot to influence the elections by the "heaven-sent opportunity of Korea ... Until we are stronger ... we should try to cut to the bare minimum the number of wars we enter solely to win local American elections." The New York Herald Tribune blamed General MacArthur for a "colossal military blunder" and said it is "impossible to put confidence in the military capacity of a headquarters which has so gravely compounded blunder by confusion of facts and intelligence...
King Solomon's Mines. Darkest Africa in brightest Technicolor reduces the hokum of H. Rider Haggard's plot to a minor hardship; with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger (TIME...
...convincing, a movie about a police state must maintain an atmosphere of futility and terror. "State Secret" almost succeeds, but eventually dies out in a weak ending. The acting, photography, and producing cannot carry the plot all the way, though they are excellent in themselves...
...just that. Author Sheldon's conclusions: the Christ-conscious turn-of-the-century man would lend a helping hand to the poor, campaign against the consumption of alcohol and tobacco, remain staunchly pacifist at whatever cost. Sheldon's In His Steps was stuffy in style, contrived in plot, and contained some of the most ludicrous dialogue ever written. But it went to the hearts of thousands. Within a few months it had sold more than 100,000 copies, has since become the alltime fiction bestseller (estimates as high as 30 million copies...