Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was an insurance company called John Hancock, and it was a proud kind of company. It was especially proud of its namesake--a bold man unafraid of opinions, who signed a document the world of his time was quick to label "subversive." So proud of him was the company that it told of his principles in full page advertisements in magazines...
...Kremlin the elaborate medical ritual went on-every flutter of an eyelid neatly noted, every rasp of breath counted. Murder by medicine was a recognized technique in the world Stalin built and ruled; his wary survivors labored to document a thorough record of the Boss's last moments...
Under the provisions of the original constitution there was nothing requiring the presence of a quorum for transaction of official business. A clause remedying this situation was among a number of important changes in the document...
...some weeks past on how lucky we are to have a leader and an Administration behind which the whole country can rally in this time of crisis, and how fortunate to find that we still have a Constitution to whose principles we can return after that noble document has been alternately ignored and abused for the past two decades...
...class by itself stood the year's most important book, Witness, by Whittaker Chambers. Almost painfully honest, it was more than a brilliant report on the Hiss case, more than a personal document of a rare and troubled spirit; it was the most eloquent warning the American people had yet heard against the Communist conspiracy in their midst, and against the failure of faith which laid the country open...