Word: challengee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The House Un-American Activities Committee let the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers case simmer last week while it hunted for more facts to complete its inquiry. But one of Alger Hiss's strong defenders built a fire under him. The Washington Post, which had been sharply critical of the...
Two nights later, Chambers accepted Hiss's challenge to make his charge public. On radio's Meet the Press program, he repeated his statement that Hiss had been a Communist.
"There are trigger-happy, sadistic law officers in the South, too many of them. But I challenge Mr. Sprigle to produce any sheriff who has either won or even run on such a platform, who was ever re-elected after a term characterized by the slaying of guiltless, unarmed Negroes...
The author, Stephen Potter, is an Englishman who insists that he learned "gamesmanship" as late as 1931, and from another gamesman, instead of at his nanny's knee. Students of the British character may challenge this assertion. He was playing a match of tennis doubles against two athletic young...
It was not doctrinal reunion. Anglicans were still Anglicans (see below) and the other member churches had also yielded no iota of dogma. But the assembly was living proof that Christians could work and plan together. It showed the churches' dawning conviction that without such unity they cannot hope...