Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further charged that the Army and the United States Brewers Foundation were engaged in a "brazen" plot to get intoxicants to soldiers, and demanded that everybody in authority in the U.S. keep a clear head by swearing off for the duration. She also suggested that Congress investigate the drinking habits of Alaskan Eskimos, on the ground that the corrosive effect of alcohol in the North fairly invited a Russian invasion...
...craft. Ours was the third. The first wave was to hit the 9½ ft. sea wall at Inchon at 5:30 p.m. The second wave would be three minutes later. The third wave was to land at 5:40. These first three waves on Red Beach, a tiny plot of ground 300 yards wide, were made up of Sam Jaskilka's company...
...Witness (Eagle Lion Classics) sends a brassy U.S. defense lawyer to England on a tough murder case, and then watches him stumble through a baffling maze of provincial customs and courtroom procedure. The plot is predictable, but Producer Joan Harrison and Director-Star Robert Montgomery wring some wry chuckles from their bull-in-the-china-shop situation, and keep the story moving at a lively clip...
Good melodrama succeeds in making its characters and plot believable. When they are not, one way for moviemakers to try for some credibility is to take the camera to the actual scene of the fictitious crime. Latest examples...
Wilson's book is called a novel, but it hardly matters that it is really a tribute and a reminiscence, wholly lacking in the artfulness of true fiction. There is no plot, just as infantry fighting has no plot. There is no special hero; Narrator Considine is just a member of one squad who Jived to tell the story. But there is tension, excitement and the imminence of death that needs no assist from tricks of fiction. The result is a blend as true as Bill Mauldin's best drawings and Ernie Pyle's best dispatches...