Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixons, as the columnists used to call them, inextricably merged into a curious figure who for fourteen years climbed the political ladder of America using his crises as the rungs. His first (if we, like him, do not mention in detail the Voorhis and Douglas campaigns) was the Hiss case, in which the freshman Congressman used a seat on the Un-American Activities Committee to ensure the conviction of Alger Hiss for perjury. He built on his success a reputation for finding subversives, and so it was that General Eisenhower, who hardly knew him in 1952, chose...
...Nixon is glows in every page of his book. He pictures each crisis as a physical ordeal, before which his blood-pressure must thump at the right level and his mind work coolly, cleared for action; and after which he must not relax too soon. His questioning of Hiss, his speech on the "Nixon Fund," and his interviews with Khrushchev are prizefights; the analogy occurs again and again...
...crises of Nixon's life were 1) the Hiss case, which "left a residue of hatred and hostility toward me" 2) the Nixon fund, which almost got him tossed off the Republican national ticket in 1952; 3) the Eisenhower heart attack of 1955, when Nixon faced the delicate task of assuming responsibility without appearing to usurp power; 4) the riotous Nixon visit to South America in 1958, which almost ended in his death at the hands of a Caracas mob; Sy the "kitchen debate" with Khrushchev during Nixon's 1959 mission to Moscow, and " 6) the 1960 campaign...
According to current engineering theory, quiet is created by adding noise. Such background noises as the soft buzz of a fluorescent light or the slight hiss of an air cooler do not inhibit concentration (whereas the sound of voices or footsteps does). If background noise in an office averages 20 decibels (the unit for measuring sound) and distracting noise 30, the best solution is not to add expensive soundproofing but to increase the background noise by 15 or more decibels. In a Rhode Island hospital, when doctors complained that conversations carried from one office to the next, a pencil-sized...
...grateful to Mr. Hiss for his thorough recital of the architectural "improvements" which, in his mind, seem to place the "Harvard Square" a cut above its much maligned but much to be mourned predecessor. However, rock gardens and heliotrope ceilings are no more the essence of a theatre than bricks and mortar are the essence of a university...