Word: hiss
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...COLD WAR MYSTERIES, NONE WAS AS perplexing as the espionage case against Alger Hiss. A former State Department official, he was accused in 1948 of spying for the Soviets, tried before a House committee led by Congressman Richard Nixon, and served a four-year term for perjury. Yet he has staunchly maintained his innocence, even in the face of microfilm evidence produced by former TIME editor Whittaker Chambers. Now comes word from an unlikely but authoritative source that Hiss, 87, may not have spied. After researching "a great amount of materials," General Dmitri Volkogonov, chairman of the Russian government...
...talked him out of it. On top of that, he's been getting no respect from potential voters watching JFK in Pennsylvania movie theaters. When it is mentioned in the film that a young Warren Commission lawyer named Arlen Specter dreamed up "the magic-bullet theory," viewers boo and hiss...
Buried somewhere in the left speaker of the Velvet Underground's "The Murder Mystery," Lou Reed speaks "with words nearly singed." In 1969 the phrase flew by, drowned out by the cascade of sounds--another lyric stereo right, the guitar riff, tape hiss...
...generations, Americans have largely defined their country and, to some extent, themselves in terms of the cold war. From McCarthyism to backyard bomb shelters, from the arms race to the space race, from Alger Hiss to the Marine spy scandal -- whatever else might have changed, the cold war abided. Moreover, it all too often metastasized into an honest-to-goodness shooting war, as in Korea and Vietnam. Now, however, only the most troglodytic right- wingers refuse to acknowledge that a new era has dawned. Says former CIA Director Richard Helms: "Years ago, when I was at the agency, from time...
foam-fields hiss...