Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasion when "bogies" (unidentified and presumably enemy planes) were reported only 18 miles off, an excited officer in the flag-plot cabin reached for the ship-to-ship radio telephone and dropped it. Another excited officer darted to pick it up, and upset the transmitter. Radford, who had been watching, picked up the telephone, quietly gave an order: "Emergency Turn 9," and turned away. No one ever heard him raise his voice in the stress of battle...
...barely accented English and with incisive facts, South Korea's representative indicted Malik's masters for a plot against Korea. "It has been the aim of the Soviet Union," he charged, "to enslave and subjugate the people of Korea ... to force the formation of a Communistic dictatorial government in Korea." Chang gave details: how the Russian army in 1945 brought in Communist expatriate Koreans to be the puppet leaders of a police state; how terror stalked the north, purging especially "bishops, pastors and other men of Christian faith"; how elections were rigged in characteristic Soviet style...
...brain child of youthful Major Patrick Leigh-Fermor and Captain W. Stanley Moss, who had achieved the schoolboy dream of becoming secret agents. At their base in Cairo, they shared a villa and sampled the fleshpots of Egypt. It was in a nightclub that they first hatched the plot that was to land their party from a motor launch on the south coast of Crete...
Ibert's music is more animated and fresh than his plot. A composer who owes a lot to Debussy and Ravel, he gives his orchestra a palette full of colors, his 40 singers (at Tanglewood, all students) arias and choruses with wit, tune and charm. Le Roi is the work of a king among craftsmen, if not of a composer working by divine right...
Richard Strauss had finished his Capriccio in 1942. In his 70s, the once-lurid old composer had turned headily intellectual. The basis of his last operatic plot was an argument that had long fascinated him: Which should come first, words or music? With Friend Clemens Krauss, conductor of the Munich Opera, writing the libretto, Strauss had set about transferring the argument to the stage...