Word: leper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still simply Chambers' word against Hiss's, and defense attorneys spared no effort to discredit the stocky, 50-year-old editor, writer and farmer, who was himself an admitted perjurer, who had once betrayed his country. The defense attorney in the first trial called Chambers a "moral leper," in the second, with the help of psychiatric testimony, a "pathological liar...