Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more surprised when I discovered that my dogeared copies of TIME held top priority with her. The ordinary luxuries like food, cigarettes, and candy had been around before, but your type of comprehensive news reporting was something she had never seen. It amazed and delighted her and, in her own words, made her "more American than German...
...parallel wasn't quite parallel. The restrictive Alien and Sedition acts, sponsored by Alexander Hamilton's Federalists, were passed by the party in power and signed by the President at a time when the U.S. feared a war with France that never happened. The Federalists feared the subversive influence of French revolutionaries, and also wanted to muzzle the Jeffersonian Republican (i.e., Democratic) press...
...spoke with a precise and confident British accent. Had he been a Communist? "I collaborated with Communists," he said, firmly, "but I was never a member of the party." Had he ever taken State Department documents and given them to "people not authorized to have them?" Briskly, the witness said he had-he had handed a briefcase full of them...
...diction grew richer as he began examining documents handed him by Murphy (a move which Murphy evidently made to prevent any implication that Wadleigh, not Hiss, might have stolen the pumpkin papers from the State Department files). The witness said he had never seen them before. Of one, he said: -'. . . it is a sufficiently rich fountain . . . an unusually rich fountain that I would have been interested in had I seen...
...Defense Attorney Stryker moved in for cross-examination the audience sat forward expectantly. But the great Thespian was surprisingly gentle. Beyond seeming to lose his temper once, and announcing twice for the jury's benefit that he, himself (unlike Wadleigh), had never gone to Oxford, he hardly seemed to warm up. He attempted unsuccessfully to get Wadleigh to say he had stolen documents from desks other than his own (including Hiss's) and turned the witness loose. At week's end the Government rested its case...