Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work. His "we" was too highly suspect, for the only common denominator in the hall was a common distrust. One turned to his neighbor and, instead of a reassuring glance, found him virtually unrecognizable. How could those in front of you applaud McCarthy? Why did those in back not hiss down Riegle? Walzer himself, however expertly, played the game, balancing the boos and hisses off against the applause...
...West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt walks slowly to the simple granite slab that memorializes the 500,000 Jews from the city's ghetto who were massacred by the Germans during World War II. For a moment he stands with bowed head, enveloped in silence except for the soft hiss of two gas-fed candelabra. Then, as if to atone for Germany's sins against its neighbors, Brandt falls to his knees. "No people," as Willy Brandt has said, "can escape from their history...
...miles to the right of Ivan the Terrible. But to those of us who love him, he's only a little to the south of John C. Calhoun." Outraged readers scrawl obscenities on his columns and mail them back to him, which amuses him; radical students hiss and turn their backs on him at campus lectures, which hurts his feelings. The hurt is salved by his fan mail from the Silent Majority, which is rhapsodic...
Died. J. Parnell Thomas, 75, seven-term Congressman from New Jersey, who gained national prominence as chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers controversy; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Thomas played a major role in the conviction of Hiss in 1948, but by then he had come a cropper himself for padding his congressional payroll, an offense that earned him nine months in federal prison...
...work for the League of Nations, and later became wartime European head of the Unitarian Service Committee's relief activities. Fired from that post because of allegations that he was sympathetic to Communists, Field went to Prague, and three weeks before the beginning of the Alger Hiss trial was abducted to Hungary by Communist agents. He was stigmatized by assorted Iron Curtain regimes as a wartime spy for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, but for reasons not made clear, he was never brought to trial. Until his death he worked as a copyreader for the government...