Word: hissing
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...Hiss: I do not see how one can say categorically that one has not seen anybody. If he was attending social functions, if there were a large number of people at some occasion and he was present, I could not testify with absolute positive finality...
Incriminatory Car. Hiss also could not testify with absolute finality about the disposition of his 1929 model A Ford roadster. Chambers had testified that the car had been turned over by Hiss to the Communist Party for the use of some hard-up organizer. Hiss said he had turned it over to "Crosley" in 1935. But the committee showed Hiss a transfer of the Ford's ownership to one William Rosen executed almost a year later...
...Hiss ever got the car back from "Crosley"? He could not remember if "Crosley" had kept it or if it "came back" to him. Hiss agreed that the signature on the photostat of the transfer looked like his, but he still had no memory of the transaction...
...William Rosen, a Washington valet-shop operator. When he was asked about the car he refused to answer on the constitutional grounds that he might incriminate himself. This was also his reply when he was asked if he had ever been a Communist. He said he did not know Hiss...
Under protracted questioning, Hiss could offer no additional evidence to back up his contention that Chambers was "Crosley." He was unable to name anyone but his wife who had ever seen them together or anyone who knew Chambers as "Crosley." But he had some angry counter-questions of his own. He wanted the committee to ask Chambers if he had ever been treated for a mental illness. He also dared Chambers to come out from behind the shield of congressional immunity, and make his accusations again, so that Hiss could sue for slander or libel...