Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...direct testimony went on that afternoon and most of the next day. When he had concluded he had covered a great part of his life and had reiterated his accusation: that Hiss had willingly stolen and copied Government reports for a Russian intelligence officer named Boris Bykov, and that he, Chambers, had acted as their intermediary...
...Government was going to put Chambers on the stand-there he would tell "in most explicit fashion" how Hiss had given him secret documents in 1937 and 1938. The jury would be shown 47 of them; Chambers would testify that Hiss brought documents home at night from his office in the State Department and that his wife, Priscilla Hiss, typed copies of them on an old, pica-type Woodstock typewriter...
...fascinated. So was Judge Samuel Kaufman-he moved quietly from the bench to the witness chair to watch at close range while the master worked. Stryker agreed that his friend, Mr. Murphy, had stated the issues well-it was a case of Chambers' word against that of Alger Hiss. He began painting a word picture of Hiss-a model boy and a model student, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the Harvard Law School and a protégeé of the great Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...Alger Hiss," he cried, "was good enough for Oliver Wendell Holmes, and...I shall summon, with all due reverence, the shade of that greatest member of the Supreme Court of the United States"" The defense attorney went on dramatically ticking off the "fiery crucibles" in which Hiss had represented the State Department-Yalta . . . Dumbarton Oaks . . . San Francisco. "Yea," he trumpeted, "though I walk through the valley of death I shall not fear, for I am with Alger Hiss...
...Easy." That afternoon when Chambers first appeared in court-a chubby, bland-faced little man in a dark blue suit and a black tie-the quiet was broken by excited babble from the spectators. Chambers did not seem to hear. He stared without expression at gaunt, handsome Alger Hiss and his decorous, greying wife, Priscilla. He seated himself in the witness chair, took the oath, fixed his eyes on the ceiling toward the back of the room and, in a low, even voice, began his long story...