Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anxious to prove a good host, Saigon had gone all out to make an impression on the delegates to the annual meeting of the 21-nation Colombo Plan, the British-fostered scheme designed to help the backward nations of Southeast Asia. New paint gleamed everywhere. Old buildings and the sidewalks before them were scrubbed as clean as any in Amsterdam. Mayor Nguyen Phu Hai had sternly forbidden his citizens to spit in public or walk even partially naked in the streets. Energetic President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital had come a long way from the fear and misery...
...sort of reconnaissance raid into the North, a passel of Georgians gleefully stopped off in Seattle and Kansas City, Mo. last week, publicized a weird scheme for counterattacking the damyankees. As the schemers explained it, a Georgia nonprofit corporation, American Resettlement Foundation, Inc., is going to buy houses in upper-income Northern suburbs and rent the places cheap to Negro families hauled up from Georgia...
...more interested in real estate than records, and−if the truth were known−more interested in propaganda than real estate. Whether or not Fowler, Harris & Co. really expect to stir up the North, one thing is clear from their grins and chuckles as they talk about their scheme: they find the mere thought of it more delicious than red gravy or pecan...
Smacking of Disneyfied science fiction, a scheme such as this one might have been dismissed entirely a few weeks ago −but not since Sputnik. While many scientists will scoff at the details of the Soviet film, they know that some measure of this fantasy might soon become reality...
...clear gainer was Nikita Khrushchev, who had extracted Yugoslav recognition of East Germany in return for Tito's readmission to honorary membership in "the camp of socialism." By this maneuver Khrushchev had forestalled Konrad Adenauer's tentative scheme to try some Bismarckian diplomacy in Eastern Europe. Adenauer's first projected step was the recognition of Poland, in the hope of creating useful fragmentation among the Soviet satellites. Having broken with Tito over the issue of East German recognition, West Germany could scarcely justify entering into diplomatic relations with the Poles, who have recognized East Germany ever since...