Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot never appears, but no one complains. The atmosphere is everything and consists of equal parts dance, costume, and dialogue. The action starts at Mme. Dubonnet's Finishing School on the French Riviera, full of charmingly frivolous creatures of the Twenties ("They do chatter so!") gaily bent on little more than gossip, the Charleston and, of course, boys. The boys pop in and out innocuously enough as the shifts from the school to le plage and finally to the Cafe Patallon for the ball. It's all good...
Ford remembers Guderian as a loyal man, one who had no part in the famous July 20 plot to kill Der Fuehrer, and in talking to him, he was able to obtain much of the information needed to recreate that plot. Asking questions as historians, Ford and his colleagues learned for instance that the Germans had been told Coventry was bombed in retaliation for Dresden. The impression gathered from talks with the highly competent generals, Ford recalls, was that "if Hitler had let the generals run the war, such disaster would not have occurred...
...Louis Joseph Abbate and Michael Louis Falcone, union-hired hoods, lightly sentenced (three months each) by an Illinois court for a plot to blow up Bell Telephone equipment, later got stiffer sentences (three years, one year) in U.S. court for conspiracy to destroy U.S.-used communications lines...
...Baghdad's Defense Ministry was a faithful reflection of Iraq's mood and condition. Nine months after Kassem and a handful of co-conspirators toppled the government of hated Strongman Nuri asSaid, the land that some say was the Garden of Eden is a place of terror, plot and counterplot. Its prisons are jammed with an estimated 5,000 political prisoners and ex-officials, and its lampposts are periodically festooned with bodies. Kassem's Iraq is a place where once-eminent citizens disappear without a trace, a land where fortnight ago the dock workers of Basra, outraged...
Prosecutor: Colonel Aref went to Damascus and plotted with Nasser to invite Kassem there so that Kassem might be assassinated when he landed at the airport. (Horrified gasps from the audience.) But our leader knew of this plot and rejected the invitation, and will reject it forever. (Stormy applause...