Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shadowy underworld of boxing, the wise guys knew that the man to see when a fight was to be fixed-or even scheduled-was a thug named Frankie Carbo, a flat-eyed hood with a shock of silvery hair. Nobody called him "Frankie." They called him "Mr. Grey." But when the law went looking for him, nobody could remember a thing about him -where he lived, what he looked like, or even when he had last been seen...
Later, in answer to a specific question on the purge of certain Communist leaders, Hood speculated that Western agents might have planted some of the evidence that led to Stalin's action. "You don't know how they work," he said...
...Otis A. Hood, chairman of the Communist Party of Massachusetts, centered his opening argument around the necessity of providing the best possible university faculty. "Teachers may be competent in their field despite conflicting philosophies, religion, or economic situations," he emphosized. By excluding professors on the basis of their private philosophies, he said, "you are opening up a road where, instead of education, you have indoctrination." Citing Soviet scientific accomplishments, he mentioned that "a lot of Communists teach on faculties in the Soviet Union...
...After Hood had devoted his rebuttal almost exclusively to considerations of alleged Communist brutality and to warnings of "McCarthyism" in this country, Schwarz accused his opponent of relying on "paranoic argument" and pointed out that Hood had dodged the question by not once mentioning the Communist Party in the United States and its aims...
...roof is a 6-in. telescope, a transparent plastic cupola for cold weather observations, a battery of meteorological gadgets. In between are perhaps the finest science classrooms in any U.S. high school, fitted with electronics laboratory, photographic darkrooms, areas for private student experiments and a specially designed fume hood built to specifications of the Atomic Energy Commission...