Word: habitability
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Still, partially out of force of habit, the caucuses stirred themselves out of hibernation briefly this spring to participate halfheartedly in the council elections. Arthur Maass, Thomson Professor of Government, put together a conservative slate in consultation with, he said "10 or 20 or 30 people." The liberals, meanwhile, were caught napping and had to get Rosovsky to add liberal nominees to the ballot...
...second complaint (besides the lady who called the police to say that we had told her we were mad rapists) from the woman next door to the house where we were arrested. Seems we had come to her door and told her we were stranglers (Bill had a habit of telling folks, when asked to identify himself, that he was a stranger). You've got to be kidding...
...mystery will soon have a new store of ammunition. Hopefully they will make better use of it than Texan professor Anthony Kubek made of a batch of dispatches from wartime China that the Senate Judiciary Committee decided to publish three years ago. That committee, which is not in the habit of collecting scholarly information on the Far East, obtained this material in 1945 in a rather spectacular fashion. After an agent of the OSS (wartime precursor of the CIA) noticed passages from a classified report printed verbatim in the left-wing journal Amerasia, he alerted his superiors, touching...
...American Inquisition is written with all the attention to style and accuracy of a political flyer. The prose is so sodden with self-righteousness and heavy irony that only the faithful (i.e., "heretics") might hope to find it tolerable. And Belfrage has also retained that annoying C.P. habit of stating a half-truth as gospel and then scampering off to make a different point. He notes that no one accused of espionage by Elizabeth Bentley, Louis Budenz or Whitaker Chambers "was ever convicted of spying," without bothering to add that the statue of limitation for espionage protected most...