Word: treed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a third possibility. Harry Truman's open opposition might prod Kefauver into a fight. Perhaps New Hampshire proves that Truman is already treed on Kefauver's television antenna. If the Chicago delegates have proof positive that the Legend is a better vote-getter than the Liability, they might-just possibly-rebel and nominate the man in the coonskin...
Earsplitting Indictment. Tiger, in China's current Communist jargon, means corrupt capitalist. But last week, as Red China's tiger hunt (TIME, March 17) screamed into new heights of shrill persecution, the quarry seemed less like vicious beasts of the jungle than treed and terrified house-cats. Chinese Communism has developed a new weapon to rout out it's bourgeois enemies, a weapon unthought of by less imaginative dictatorships: trial by sound-truck. Like baying hounds at the foot of a tree, Communism's sound-trucks last week planted themselves in the streets outside of tradesmen...
Senators enjoy barking at witnesses much as mastiffs enjoy barking at treed cats. But when Mrs. Olga Konow of Forest Hills, N.Y. took the stand in the Senate's tanker investigation last week, the committee fell instantly into a state of trancelike gallantry. Improbable as it seemed, Mrs. Konow had arranged for the enormously profitable sale of three surplus tankers to United Tanker Corp.-a Chinese firm with a phony U.S. front, which subsequently delivered oil to the Chinese Reds. The Senators loved...