Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Terrace is still untouched. A bowl of apples and bananas sits spotless on a kitchen counter. Unfortunately, like many homes in a town proud of its rustic flavor, Pattengill's is made of wood. Within minutes, his tennis shoes can be heard trudging the roof, accompanied by a slight hiss of water. Then he comes down again. "There's hardly any water pressure," he laments, a fact that has been hampering official fire fighters all day. Outside on his patio, an ember alights on a flower and incinerates it. The phone rings. It's his wife. "Yeah," he says...
...despite the end of the cold war. Kirpichenko also says the KGB knew in advance about the invasion of the Suez by England, France and Israel in 1956 and the Egyptian surprise attack on / the Suez Canal that began the 1973 October War. Historian-writer Allen Weinstein (Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case) is the book's co-author...
EVERY ERA HAS ITS ARCHETYPAL confrontation. A previous generation had the struggle between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss about whether Hiss was a Soviet spy. The baby boomers' version is the titanic struggle between Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas. In both cases contesting claims became enmeshed in larger issues that haunted the country -- the cold war then, the war between the sexes now. And, as in the Chambers-Hiss case, the respective defenders of Hill and Thomas have never rested...
...speaks no English and has never learned to read Chinese. He does not know where San Francisco is. He is not even certain that he is in New York. He knows only this: he is in America. Hiss...
After dinner as we were walking down Quincy Street from the Faculty Club to Memorial Hall, one of the students walking with us asked if I had explained to Malcolm about hissing at Harvard. Malcolm stiffened and announced that no one was going to hiss him. He looked at me and said that I would certainly not let any student hiss me, would I? I explained that at Harvard, students often hiss a faculty member over anything from a bad joke to an additional assignment. Malcolm expressed surprise, but quickly turned to one of his colleagues saying, "Tell everyone...