Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clark first found out about the Foster Parents' scheme when he was in France last summer. He wrote during the winter with Miss Thompson, but they made no stipulations as to whether they wanted a little Spanish boy or a little Spanish girl, and the child was picked for them...
Thanks considerably to Sepp's print-lashings, Nazis-about-town become annoyed with the Gazette, hatch a scheme to buy over its angel. When Sepp is fired, the whole staff walks out after him, starts a rival paper. Sepp, frantic by now to get back to his music, is caught again...
Guerrillas. A phrase heard often in China, where things are always breaking down, is: "hsiang fa tze"-"let's cook up a scheme." By January 1938, Shanghai's industry-which was about 70% of China's-had been turned into acres of scrap steel and broken brick. Unless some scheme could be cooked up to replace this wrecked beehive, China's economy would have very little sting left...
...summer of 1930, two Irishmen of the Old Sod-a bookmaker and a politician-put their heads together and figured out a scheme. They would run a lottery on an English horse race, ask the Irish Free State to sanction it, give a fat chunk of the proceeds to impoverished Irish hospitals. R. J. Duggan, the bookmaker, had experience: he had run sweepstakes before. Joseph McGrath, the politician, had a flock of friends: he had been Minister of Labor under President Griffith. With the Bail's consent, Duggan & McGrath formed the Irish Hospitals' Trust...
...unit in a unified universe." Undeniably it was written following the Reformation, in a Europe torn by a chaos of sectarian dissonances; but for this very reason is it so all-embracing, for instead of excluding heresies, it absorbs and sweeps them up into the one gigantic scheme. Into the Mass is blended the simple humanity of Lutheranism and the grandeur of Catholicism, the eternal spirit of religion rather than the temporary whims of a set of ecclesiastics...