Word: hiss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John McDowell, 55, acid-tongued, flag-waving sometime Republican U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1939-41, 1947-49), among those credited by Whittaker Chambers (in Witness) with hunting down the facts (while a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee) that led to the arrest and conviction of Alger Hiss; by his own hand (gunshot); at his home in Wilkinsburg...
Five years ago Nixon had some of the world's most articulate enemies. They criticized him for his key role in the congressional investigation of Communist Alger Hiss, for the "Nixon Fund" in California, and for the "Checkers Speech" that he made defending himself. They continued to criticize him for the way he campaigned against Democrats in 1954. But Nixon stuck to his job, began to win respect for his diligence, his conduct during the first two presidential illnesses and on trips abroad as President Eisenhower's representative...
...recording its great merit is that it keeps perfect balance; most choral records sound as if there were twenty sopranos for every bass. However, the transfer from tape to disk was sloppily done. The review copy had serious pre-echo, intemittent hiss, and a series of clicks which sounded like liconic castanets. Furthermore, neither record has any lead-in grooves; so that the first moments of each side are lost unless the needle is put on with a loving and very steady hand...
Apart from its inherent drama, the Casement story is compelling today because it raised political passions as strong as those later provoked by a Klaus Fuchs or an Alger Hiss. Bernard Shaw, Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton ringingly defended Casement. Others, including Poet Alfred Noyes, equally ringingly denounced him (this year, at 77, Poet Noyes published an emotional book reversing his earlier stand). It may have been a kind of Irish Faust who disappeared through the trap on the gallows of Pentonville Prison. Yet objective readers of Author MacColl's biography must agree that he was truly and justly...
...four nights last week the heart of Warsaw echoed to the whomp and hiss of exploding tear-gas bombs, the thud of rubber truncheons on human flesh and the taunting cries of "Gestapo, Gestapo," that came from the throats of thousands of rioting Polish university students. It was the most serious civil disturbance since the bloody Poznan rebellion of last year...