Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-flying B-36 was a sitting duck. Last week the Joint Chiefs of Staff sensibly ruled that there could be "no useful purpose" in staging a duel in public between the B-36 and jet fighters. The memorandum was unwillingly signed by Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, the senior member of the JCS, whose Naval airmen had started all the hullabaloo in the first place...
Then he turned to "this man who calls himself Chambers, alias Adams, alias Crosley, alias Cantwell, and was a member of this nefarious, filthy conspiracy for twelve long years." Midway in his diatribe he veered to throw in a shocker. Discussing the secret documents which the State would present, Lloyd Stryker cried in triumph: "We have the typewriter! We'll let these FBIs come over and look at it all they like...
...Alger Hiss," he cried, "was good enough for Oliver Wendell Holmes, and...I shall summon, with all due reverence, the shade of that greatest member of the Supreme Court of the United States"" The defense attorney went on dramatically ticking off the "fiery crucibles" in which Hiss had represented the State Department-Yalta . . . Dumbarton Oaks . . . San Francisco. "Yea," he trumpeted, "though I walk through the valley of death I shall not fear, for I am with Alger Hiss...
Last week the subject of Yemenite wives broke into a drowsy committee meeting of Tel Aviv's Knesset (Parliament). Up for study was a bill fixing legislative salaries. One committeeman questioned the $45 monthly allotted for The wife of each Knesset member. What about bounties for the extra wives of Moslem representatives...
Immediately the meeting perked up. A Mapai (Labor) member sharply denounced wages for extra wives, then sneered, "If there are any among us who are doing such immoral things...