Word: hiss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American women to live in Russia. American women with their demands for better food, better sanitation and more comforts, cause too much trouble and discontent among the people. I didn't have to wait in line at the Soviet stores as the Russians did, but they used to hiss me. I had to have a police escort to get through. Since we left, I've heard they've had to change the rules and make American women stand in line, too, because Russians resented...
...fortnight watching Long Lance make his first solo. The chins fell agape as his plane, nose down, roared earthward in a power dive, pulled up and over in a perfectly executed loop. Long Lance climbed back into the sky and the dumfounded watchers heard his motor die to a hiss, saw the ship stall, saw it "fall off" on one wing and into what every novice should dread?a tailspin. The motor barked again, and Long Lance pulled out and into a gentle landing. Grinning, Long Lance clambered from his cockpit to face school discipline for his antics...
...revolutionary activities by the Russian Soviet in the U. S. Witnesses at their Manhattan hearings had told them they might see Red flags, hear juvenile profanity at the Communist-organized children's summer camps (TIME, July 28). Many a young Red nose was thumbed at them, many a hiss and boo was heard, but there were no Red flags and the newsgatherers who accompanied the Congressmen could not agree whether there was profanity...