Word: hiss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what did Nixon say the American people would boil Alger Hiss if they knew his true nature...
...year-old blonde girl astonished Nixon by asking what the Alger Hiss case was. Who was that girl...
...told reporters: "For 16 years, ever since the Hiss case...
...beneath the gallows humor lies a mounting sense of desperation--brilliantly conveyed by the transcribers' development of nostalgically historical motifs. Three and four times over they go back to Nixon's prosecution of Alger Hiss, and three times they go even further, to the days when "the Communist front raised a million dollars for the Scottsboro people," when "nine hundred thousand went into the pockets of the Communists...
Adams makes his fable of survival a neat enough suspense story as his little band hippety-hops across the animal playing fields of England, bedeviled by crows, dogs, cats, automobiles and all the sundry elil (enemies) known to rabbits, not excluding other rabbits. The rabbit-you-love-to-hiss is a sort of lapine Erich von Stroheim named General Woundwort who runs a fascist-state warren. When the mateless hlessil bucks lure comely does from behind Woundwort's Iron Curtain, all bunny-hell breaks loose...