Word: hissing
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...paneled courtroom are the solemn, bored or curious faces: friends of the Hisses, friends of the lawyers; Alice Roosevelt Longworth; Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt making sketches; one day the new Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.; a handful of anonymous spectators lucky enough to get in; Judge Henry Goddard, uttering scarcely a word; the wooden-faced male jurors; the lady jurors wearing increasingly frivolous hat styles; Hiss's grey-haired attorney, Claude B. Cross; and dominating the court by sheer size-Hiss's determined adversary...
...every word he rumbles, able Prosecutor Murphy displays his conviction of Hiss's guilt. He rises, puffing out his cheeks a little, eyes on his quarry. Hiss's head on his thin neck is cocked to one side. His only gestures are with his head, which he ducks, shakes, nods, rolls from side to side. His hands are kept folded in his lap; his eyes are fixed steadily on Murphy's face...
...Inexplicable. It was the 24th day of the second trial. Murphy rumbled casually: "Would it embarrass you if I asked you about some of the suicides in your family?" Said Hiss softly: "No." There had been two, his father and his sister? Hiss said: "That is correct...
Methodically, relentlessly, Murphy rumbled on. He read the photostat of a letter written by Hiss. It showed that Hiss had been on intimate terms with Noel Field, once a State Department colleague and also accused of complicity in the Soviet spy ring. Field had vanished behind the Iron Curtain...
Imperturbably, warily, Hiss walked around Murphy's legal traps. He was wanly amused sometimes at Murphy's bristling. Occasionally he himself showed a flash of anger. He argued tirelessly over the usage of words. But his insistence on his innocence never wavered...