Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gentleman who put the Republicans back in the White House-Alger Hiss...
...capacity for and a preoccupation with mental activity of a particular kind, limited in its scope, and by no means resulting in an orderly process of thought capable of producing wise decision, nor of envisaging constructive and adequate planning for this nation's life, liberty and happiness. Alger Hiss is an egghead, Whittaker Chambers is an egghead, with a latent streak of common sense. There are all kinds of eggheads-neurotic, paranoiac, schizophrenic. There are also harmless and normal eggheads, including a few useful ones...
...Washington. To many of his subordinates, White seemed a rather frightening and unapproachable boss. Coe, who used to stretch out on the davenport in White's office, became a channel between White and the staff. At the Bretton Woods Conference, Coe did important organizational chores, just as Alger Hiss had done during the founding of the United Nations at San Francisco. In 1946, Coe became secretary of the Bretton Woods offspring, the International Monetary Fund, which uses a kitty of $8 billion to keep a balance in international payments. That job, giving its holder access to sensitive information, ultimately...
...class by itself stood the year's most important book, Witness, by Whittaker Chambers. Almost painfully honest, it was more than a brilliant report on the Hiss case, more than a personal document of a rare and troubled spirit; it was the most eloquent warning the American people had yet heard against the Communist conspiracy in their midst, and against the failure of faith which laid the country open...
...half of pipe already whirling below ground in a single, continuous column. At 8,663 ft. the drilling was stopped, the drill pulled out. Hurriedly the hole was cased with seven-inch pipe and capped. Then, when all was ready, the cap was opened. With a great hiss, jets of water and drilling-mud shot out of the hole. For a few minutes there was just the steady hissing of moist gas, smelling like rotten eggs. Then came the oil-a greenish-yellow stream. Amerada had brought in its 70th Williston producer, and Farmer Osborn...