Word: woodstock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woodstock. Against those imposing character witnesses was the prosecution's vastly detailed case, based chiefly on the evidence of the stolen State Department documents in the possession of Whittaker Chambers, onetime Communist espionage agent. Some of those papers were admittedly in Alger Hiss's own handwriting. All but one of the rest had been typed (according to an FBI expert) on an old Woodstock typewriter which had once belonged to Hiss. The defense turned to the documentary evidence...
...point was obvious: if the defense could prove that the Hisses did not even have the typewriter when the documents were typed (in the early months of 1938), Hiss's case would look fairly secure. Mrs. Catlett's young son, Mike, recalled that it was an old Woodstock. From under the defense table, Defense Lawyer Edward McLean dramatically dragged a battered machine. Was this it? Mike pecked at a couple of keys and decided that...
...given him secret documents in 1937 and 1938. The jury would be shown 47 of them; Chambers would testify that Hiss brought documents home at night from his office in the State Department and that his wife, Priscilla Hiss, typed copies of them on an old, pica-type Woodstock typewriter...
...Woodstock--16-20, five powder. Fair to good. BERKSHIRES...
Stowe and Woodstock, Vermont, report two to three inches of powder and fair to good conditions...