Word: crouching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which was packed a boring machine consigned to Sydney, Australia. The crate was lined with black creosote paper, and except for the light trickling through two tiny knotholes, was completely dark. There was no room for the fugitive to sit or lie down; all he could do was crouch on the metal plate at the base of the machine. He had read in a book on Yoga that meat increases thirst, so all he took with him for what he estimated would be a six-day trip was four bottles of water and two loaves of dry bread...
...decade later, Paul Crouch started a new career: in August...
Department of Justice hired Crouch as a consultant and expert witness on Communism. Since then he has been a witness in dozens of Smith Act trials, deportation cases, grand-jury investigations and congressional hearings. In two years he has been paid $9,675 in witness fees...
...from time to time, contradictions bulged out in Crouch's sworn testimony. In a deportation hearing against the Chicago Sun-Times's Cartoonist Jacob Burck last year, Crouch testified that he had often seen Burck at Communist Party meetings and offices. When asked to identify Burck, he pointed to Chicago Tribune Photographer Max Arthur, who does not resemble Burck. In a Philadelphia Smith Act trial of several second-string Communists, Crouch testified freely about one David Davis. Then a defense lawyer reminded Crouch that in the perjury trial of West Coast Labor Leader Harry Bridges, Crouch had denied...
Last week Professional Witness Crouch made the most astonishing accusation of his career. In identical letters to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's Government Operations Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee, Crouch turned on his employers. He charged that Brownell and Deputy Attorney General William Rogers had "given considerable aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States." How? By launching an investigation of Paul Crouch. He demanded an investigation of Brownell and Rogers...