Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Affiliated Hospitals Center--a complex that would provide new facilities for the Boston Lying-in, Peter Bent Brigham and Robert Breck Brigham Hospitals--was to be primarily a research institution rather than an outpatient hospital that could service the community. Secondly, they discovered that Harvard owned a large, uninhabited plot of land in the area. Formerly the site of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, the land was now a ten-acre parking lot and was actually larger than the RTH neighborhood. Harvard's explanation for wanting to build on the inhabited land was that the Convent site...
...counterattack, Boyle's attorney, Charles F. Moses of Billings, Mont., attempted to prove that the murder conspiracy was a local plot in U.M.W. District 19 in eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. He offered little testimony to that specific effect, but tried instead to undermine the credibility of Sprague's witnesses...
...shock and beatings; with women prisoners, multiple rape has been used to force confessions. "The members of this government think they are going to be murdered in their beds," explains one diplomat. "They see no reason to go easy on anyone who might have something to do with that plot...
Pittston is said to have offered Mearl Corp., which transforms fish scales into raw materials for shirt buttons and lipstick, as much as $7 million for a key 35-acre plot...
...took a leave of absence from his company. Patrick emphasized it was only a lark. "I jumped at the offer as something new and exciting," he said in a break between the fights that document the story of a black South African's escape from jail. About the plot, he is enthusiastic: "I'm glad it shows so starkly the evils of the color bar." As for his own role: "It's much harder than being a king...