Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer of 1948, a squat, rumpled man took the witness stand before the House Un-American Activities Committee and made a series of accusations that changed the temper of his times. The accuser was a journalist named Whittaker Chambers. The accused was Alger Hiss, a longtime high-ranking State Department official who had been at Franklin Roosevelt's side at Yalta and had helped to write the Charter of the United Nations...
Chambers' sensational charge: he and Hiss had once worked hand in glove for a Communist spy ring operating in Washington during...
Chambers' startling statements touched off an impassioned and bitter national debate. At first, public sentiment favored Hiss, for the case seemed to turn solely on the word of a confessed Communist agent determined to destroy a man who had been the trusted colleague of such officials as the late Senator Arthur Vandenberg and former Secretaries of State Cordell Hull, Edward Stettinius and James Byrnes. Most of the U.S. was still reluctant to believe that Communism could have penetrated the Federal Government. Then, bit by bit-as if hesitating to reveal the extent of the conspiracy and his own involvement...
...Willard Uphaus, who spoke in the fall of 1959, meets those specifications.) Or does the trouble come not from the case's pending nature itself, but from the possibility that Seeger will finally lose? If Seeger's appeal fails, will he remain taboo after his sentence is served? (Alger Hiss spoke at Princeton under those conditions.) The only circumstances under which court action could be relevant to a matter such as this would be if the individual concerned were in jail, and thus unable to appear...
...clamour. The Crimson is a local paper, and it will support its team. The mighty Red Sox have tasted the bitter almonds of defeat more than once, but they are ours and we cannot graciously renounce them. Simple loyalty is a more powerful force than all the serpents, who hiss the tunes of realistic appraisal. The Red Sox will endure. The noble Williams, who so justly detested his public, and whose grand saliva made rainbows inspiring to behold, is no longer with them, but they will endure...