Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after more atomic talebearers? They would not say, but it seemed extremely likely. Everyone in the plot seemed to have one thing in common -they talked their heads off about their pals as soon as they were caught. And, as the U.S. was fast learning...
...their homes by fire. Like thousands of other homeless Greeks, they took to the road, eventually settled down on a rocky hillside near Athens. Psofios prospered, soon had a sizable herd of goats, whose milk he sold in an Athens suburb. Golfis did not fare so well; his small plot of land barely supported him and his son Andreas. Finally, 64-year-old Golfis was forced to go to work for 34-year-old Psofios, tending his goats...
...great event; Psofios announced he would sink a well. Old Golfis, who was too poor to drill a well of his own, feared that all the water under his land would be drained off by his neighbor's well, that the meager springs on his own plot would dry up. For days, he brooded. Then he decided on a plan to ruin Psofios...
...been drinking milk poisoned by Trionol (a poisonous chemical used in Greece to clean marble and porcelain objects, including toilets). None of the victims died, but the police closed Psofios' milk distributing plant, prepared charges against him. Things looked black for Psofios; old Golfis was sure that his plot had succeeded. But he had reckoned without a conscience sterner than his own. One night, Golfis' son Andreas had come upon his father near their neighbor's milk cans. "Tell no one you have seen me," old Golfis had said angrily, "and don't drink any milk...
...hears himself convicted by false testimony he cannot refute because of his even greater fear of the truth. After a last-minute escape to a miserable outlaw camp in the wilderness of Kentucky, he comes to the final, crushing discovery that he has been the victim of a plot by his political cronies...