Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Secretary of State Seward, as the "unseen hand" and "evil genius" who would not press for the immediate abolition of slavery. The dissidents, all congressional extremists, met secretly so as not to broadcast their lack of confidence in the Government at a perilous moment. Lincoln found out about the plot, maneuvered the extremists into backing down...
Scripter M. C. Brock, a graduate of radio's Dick Tracy, tries to keep his plot abreast of the news. Captain Video began his interstellar travels during the excitement about flying saucers, and he was helping out in the front lines during the first months of the Korean war. Currently, the captain (aided by invisible planetary friends) is fending off an all-out invasion of the U.S. by the "combined forces of the Near East, the Far East and Eastern Europe...
King Solomon's Mines. Darkest Africa in brightest Technicolor reduces the hokum of H. Rider Haggard's plot to a minor hardship; with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger (TIME...
...Culprits? Many newspapers currycombed the woods for scapegoats. In the influential Emporia Gazette, William L. White angrily charged the war to an Administration plot to influence the elections by the "heaven-sent opportunity of Korea ... Until we are stronger ... we should try to cut to the bare minimum the number of wars we enter solely to win local American elections." The New York Herald Tribune blamed General MacArthur for a "colossal military blunder" and said it is "impossible to put confidence in the military capacity of a headquarters which has so gravely compounded blunder by confusion of facts and intelligence...
King Solomon's Mines. Darkest Africa in brightest Technicolor reduces the hokum of H. Rider Haggard's plot to a minor hardship; with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger (TIME...