Mothers who worked as secretaries, keeping their heads down, all the while plotting a way forward for their babies.
Two Al Qaeda members ran a charity in Kenya while plotting the 1998 embassy bombings.
I understood this and, on some level, forgave them, while plotting my revenge.
Alex King, who is now 13, looks like a child, but he was having sex with 40-year-old Ricky Chavis while plotting the murder of his father.
They captured a C.I.A. case officer named William Daugherty and accused him of running the agency's entire Middle Eastern spy network while plotting to assassinate Ayatollah Khomeini.
Thomas had been working on getting a quadrotor to swoop in and, while plotting its own trajectory, pick up an object without stopping.
His military ambitions thwarted by vision problems, Mr. Clancy was selling insurance while plotting thrillers at his dining room table at night.
Back in 1994, while plotting his takeover of the House, Gingrich circulated a memo on how to use words as a weapon.
He came back in February to win a landslide election victory, and has since run the state while plotting a grander campaign to become the leader of Punjab.
I used the money to move to Australia, where I intended to travel and work casually, while plotting my next career move.
And he kept himself amused, laughing like a child while plotting a practical joke he still hopes to spring on his well-liked press secretary, Mr. Lehane.
