Word: nondescripts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along Fifth and Park avenues, proud doormen shucked off their uniforms and donned picketing signs; their shoulders drooped perceptibly. Out of uniform many turned out to be shabby, nondescript...
...ever looked less like a master criminal than Hugo Hedin. He was a tall, stooped man with a mournful, bloodhound face and a shambling walk. He wore nondescript clothes, and had no friends. He talked hesitantly, with a Swedish accent. His lungs were weak and so was his stomach; he had a hypochondriac's love of pills. He spent a great deal of time in honest toil-he was a carpenter, a bricklayer, a plasterer, an upholsterer and a camera mechanic. He was also very poor...
...given testimony, Chief Magistrate Sir Lawrence Dunne remanded Fuchs to stand trial for treason at the Feb. 28 Old Bailey criminal sessions. The hearing at Bow Street had taken just two hours. The proceedings over, Fuchs walked out of the courtroom, back to his cell, looking like a harmless, nondescript scientist whom one might see in any laboratory. Despite his harmless look, despite repentance of a sort, Dr. Klaus Fuchs still bore Communism's indelible brand-NASH...