Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Philip Hanson Hiss, 48, settled down to the real estate business in booming Sarasota, Fla. (pop. 45,000), he quickly established a reputation for being a damyankee with the loudest mouth around. What Hiss found to shout about was the school building program. Says he: "When I got the facts I went wild. Some of the schools were downright unsanitary. The rest rooms were so bad the kids wouldn't even go to the bathroom. And the curriculum was just as bad." In 1953 a friend jokingly challenged him to run for the school board. A self-styled...
...cups. Medievalist White has small use for the modern world, and bitterly resents Britain's decline. He is likely to poke a horny forefinger into the nearest American chest and hiss dramatically, "You pinched my bloody empire from me." A tormented man, by turns merry and melancholy, Tim White admits to a lifelong inferiority complex. Spurred by fear, he pushed himself into physical adventure. He has piloted a plane, learned to skindive with ill-fated Commander Crabb, stayed awake three days and nights to achieve mastery over a fierce, untamed hawk (The Goshawk...
...political ring for punches designed to slam through the front pages. He must be doing all right for himself, because the shadows in the dark, slimy political alleys continue to try to smear him with the wornout, age-old charges never proved, but kept alive by the followers of Hiss, Truman, Rayburn and others who have dedicated themselves to the vilification of this man of destiny...
...Melanie Jane whimpering close by. As the lightning flashed they could see the baby crawling back toward the bus. Chicago-bound Eduardo Ramos shouted for her to go back, to stay away. But in each glimpse she came closer. Suddenly, after an agonizing half-hour, there was a quick hiss of sparks. Said Eduardo Ramos: "The baby was quiet then. We couldn't hear it crying any more...
Unfortunately, the accounts of Communists at work leave them strangely faceless and bearing mostly names like Bill and Phil. Hoover makes it plain that he is sensitive to charges of sensationalism that have been made against the FBI. Perhaps on this ground, he omitted all reference to the Hiss case, on which 263 agents of his bureau were engaged, although the chapter on "Espionage and Sabotage" would seem to call for it (Don Whitehead's The FBI Story, which Hoover underwrote, dealt with the case in some detail). Hoover's conclusion is a convincingly humble plea for Americans...