Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smelled like the local stock yards, milled twenty thousand yelling, cursing, sweating delegates. The air, foul with tobacco and alcohol, and humid with perspiration, was unbearable. The men, after hours of frenzied attempts at agreement, were tired and sick. They paid no attention to the speakers except to hiss off the platform those whose stentorian tones interrupted conversations on the floor. The chairman wearily hammered his gavel and introduced the last speaker of the day. Thanking heaven that the end was near, he slumped in his chair and mopped his forehead with a soggy handerkerchief...
Baffling to most U. S. scientists are the tempests in a tea glass that hiss up from time to time among Soviet scientists. For in Stalinist Russia science is under the sway of political philosophy, and Soviet political philosophy is a religion-complete with scriptures (the writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin), a living prophet, heresies, an Inquisition-and a God. The God-or, more exactly, the Holy Ghost-is the principle of dialectical materialism, which in Marxist eyes explains the working of the world, the whole of human history. In the U. S. S. R. practically...