Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bombing in Indochina and the release of "political prisoners" held in U.S. jails, apparently a reference to youths convicted of draft evasion and crimes related to radical activities. The letter indicates that the writer had no illusions that the demands would be met. But if the plot were not attempted, it said, someone else might do it "badly," and it would "end in fiasco or violence & killing...
...Zapata" announced that if a Guerrero coffee millionaire did not pay 350,000 pesos ransom, his son would be executed. With the demand the group cited the names of six campesinos for whose murder the millionaire is allegedly responsible. On April 27 government agents arrested six suspects in the plot. Guerrero's governor and three top officials were killed in a helicopter crash on April 19 that also might have been caused by guerrilla sabotage...
...plot is your basic late show ballgame script Lowly Springfield, having graduated eight of nine starters, rallies around Skowhegan's Boynton for an unbelievable 12-2-1 season. And, as we enter the final scene. Boynton is on the mound against the world champion, over-confident opposition (Harvard). The score today will only determine whether the movie was a tragedy or a comedy...
Follies is almost sans plot. Just before his old Broadway theater is to be torn down, Impresario Dmitri Weismann (read Flo Ziegfeld) orders a first and last reunion of his celebrated personnel. All the familiar types attend: Phyllis, the leggy brunette (Alexis Smith) who married well; Sally, the third-from-the-left blonde (Dorothy Collins) who didn't. The bolero-dancing couple (Victor Griffin and Jayne Turner) who bought a Fred Astaire franchise ("Styles change; you never can tell"), the wisecracking queen bee (Yvonne De Carlo) with her hive of young drones; the feathery Continental (Justine Johnston) who remembers Franz...
...become inevitable." Yet there have been more explosive campus confrontations without gunfire. As Vaclav Koutnik, a professor from Czechoslovakia visiting Kent State, wryly told one of Michener's researchers: "Russia took over my whole country without killing one student. Your soldiers couldn't take over a Plot of grass." It is not enough for Michener to describe the shooting as "an accident, deplorable and tragic." Triggers were not pulled accidentally, either at My Lai or at Kent State...