Word: hissing
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Backround; Dean--Dean wrote shortly before he drove his Porsche into the Ford: "If a choice is in order, I'd rather have people hiss than yawn...
...first 78 miles of its run to Lyon, it traveled the French National Railroads' regular tracks at conventional speed (max: 100 m.p.h.). In the comfortable, soundproofed cars, the only noises were the quiet hiss of air conditioning, the strains of Chopin-and the popping of champagne corks. Then, at Saint-Floren-tin, came the announcement: "We are entering the new section of track. Our speed will be 260 kilometers [162 miles] per hour...
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...drew one hiss from the audience when he questioned the effectiveness of some students who may intend to go directly to work in underdeveloped countries, giving themselves entirely to missionary or social work: "Unless you feel a true call to that sort of work, you probably won't function effectively in it very long...
...Cambridge-to-Washington shuttle, becoming one of the first of a long line of academics to serve as White House sages. While he personally stroked F.D.R.'s liberalism, he dispatched his best and brightest students, his "happy hot dogs," like Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran, Dean Acheson and Alger Hiss, to mold the New Deal bureaucracy...