Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dixiecrats saw FEPC as an unconstitutional, Communist-inspired plot to force unwanted employees on unwilling employers, an attempt to legislate what only persuasion and education could achieve. With the South in full control, there was not much chance for the FEPC counterargument: that FEPC did not deny an employer's right to hire & fire on merit, that it specified only that religion or race could not be a factor in employment, that local FEPC plans had already proved workable in states like New York...
...soil seeks affection, companionship and even faith in his environment. But because Berlin is so desolate and its people reduced to such hopelessness, the boy finds no answer but death. Producer and director, Roberto Rossellini's photography captures perfectly the demolished physical atmosphere of war-term Berlin, while the plot progression skillfully works out the emotional sterility of most of the characters...
...Siea's plot is supremely simple. An unemployed man is offered a job posting bills, provided he can supply his own bicycle. To get the bicycle, his wife has to sell the family's sheets. During the first day on his new job the bicycle is stolen. The rest of the film follows the worker and his young son as they tramp through the streets of Rome in a futile search...
After days of futile inquiries and protests, the British Embassy announced last week that it had obtained Kirton's release. The police, until then mum about the whole affair, finally admitted that the arrests had been made-in an investigation of "a plot to sow confusion and dissension." Next day the federal judge charged with the investigation denounced the plot as a phony, ordered the rest of the suspects freed. Federal Police Chief Arturo Bertollo hurriedly departed for a few weeks' rest in Argentina's beautiful Andean lakes region...
...version of bingo with a touch of Stop the Music thrown in. Players must first guess the name of the tune being played from a numbered list supplied by the sponsors, then match the tune's number with an accompanying bingo-type card. The first to plot five numbers in a row calls the radio station, screams "Tune-O!" and waits for the prizes to roll in: $1,000 in cash, jewelry, a new automobile...