Word: colds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drums and tramplings, Kentucky's Senator Alben Barkley hit the road. Accompanied by only two aides, the 70-year-old Democratic candidate for Vice President made little leaps around the East by airline, train, and rented car. His knee was stiff and he was suffering from a cold (which he doctored with drugstore pills), but he kept...
...Cold Feet." Robert Stripling, the committee's chief investigator, had developed two cases. The first centered around one Arthur Alexandrovich Adams, who shuttled between the U.S. and Moscow before the war, and had been connected with Russian commercial missions in the U.S. Adams, long suspected of espionage for Russia, slipped out from under FBI surveillance in 1945, is now believed to be in the U.S.S.R. The committee linked Adams with two U.S. scientists who had worked on secret atomic projects. One was Clarence Francis Hiskey, 36, now a chemistry professor at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. The other was slender John...
...committee's story was that in 1944, when Chapin was at work on a secret atomic process at the University of Chicago, Hiskey arranged for him to meet Adams. Hiskey had described Adams as a Russian agent. The meeting took place but Chapin got cold feet. He told the committee under oath that he passed no secrets...
Said Scotsman Hector McNeil, a member of the British delegation: "Cauld kail het again" (Cold cabbage warmed over...
...cold and windy evening last week, while the men in Paris still considered the Count's plan, a white plane with United Nations markings landed at Stockholm airport. It bore the coffin of Folke Bernadotte. In a hangar filled with dahlias and carnations, in the presence of the Count's 88-year-old father Prince Oscar (brother of Sweden's King Gustaf), a short ceremony took place. Said the old man to the men who had brought his son's body home: "Thank you for what you have done...