Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That the "Counter Teach-in" was"a plot between Harvard and the U. S. Information Agency to show that the antiwar movement was dead...
Sadat was the firebrand of the young officers' group that gathered around Nasser. His most spectacular idea was a plot to blow up the British embassy. Nasser talked him out of that. "I was always eager to step up the pace. But Gamal, a man of deliberation, acted as a restraining influence," Sadat once wrote. On the night of July 23, 1952, when the planners decided to move against King Farouk's corrupt regime, Sadat was nowhere to be found; he had gone to a movie in Cairo with his wife, Gehan. Eventually he received a message from Nasser, threw...
...finally paid off. One gray December morning in 1969, Nasser summoned Sadat to his home in the Cairo suburb of Manshiet al Bakri. He was preparing to go to an Arab summit in Rabat, and he had spent all night reading intelligence estimates about a supposed assassination plot against him. Nasser figured that he ought to have a Vice President and swore Sadat in on the spot. Less than ten months later, the man who had announced the success of Nasser's 1952 revolution was called upon to tell the Egyptian people that their beloved El Rais (The Boss...
...shrewd and ambitious administrator who had been virtually running Cambodia anyway as Vice Premier and Lon Nol's closest confidant. Sirik Matak is not only a cousin, but also an old foe of Sihanouk, and he is widely assumed to have been the chief architect of the plot that ousted the prince 15 months...
...upon its own data and upon the bodies of the data-collectors. Within the game's gaunt stupidity individuals play only peripheral roles, stepping quietly here and there so as not to disturb the data. Sloan the amoralist believes himself only "an actor whose inhumanities are necessary to the plot. Whose victims are straw people. The point of a drama is not its carnage but how the hero turns...