Word: brother
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...espionage agent. A Mrs. Margaret Kellog Smith, proprietor of a children's camp, refuted Chambers' testimony that Chambers and the Hisses had been together in Peterborough, N.H. on Aug. 10, 1937-she swore that Hiss had been at her camp near Chestertown, Md. Alger Hiss's brother Donald denied another item of Chambers' testimony-that Soviet Agent Colonel Bykov wanted Donald to steal State documents too. Donald testified that he had not gone to work for the State Department until six months after the conversation supposedly took place...
...intently to lip reading and to learning to talk which he now does, blurrily but intelligibly, in three languages. The elder of the late King Alfonso's two living sons, he gave up his rights to the Spanish throne 16 years ago in favor of his healthy younger brother Juan, and set off in pursuit of the happiness that has traditionally eluded his hemophilic Bourbon family...
...Brother Gompers Defines an Era. Tough men, the lords of American Big Business; the power they wielded had begun to worry thoughtful citizens. Some proposed that the government curb "the trusts." Others feared that legislation would exchange one tyranny for a worse. Arthur Twining Hadley, Greek scholar and president of Yale, had a quaint solution. In January 1900, Hadley proposed to deal with the business monopolist by an old Greek remedy-ostracism...
Orwell saw the world divided into rival dictatorships. Britain, freedom's old home, is "Airstrip One" and its people, A.D. 1984, are controlled in every thought and act by Big Brother. Winston Smith, the pathetic hero, wakes in the morning to compulsory gymnastics directed by a virago who can see him from a two-way "telescreen" which takes pictures as well as projects them.* Winston's day is spent falsifying history to suit Big Brother, and when Winston rebels, Big Brother has ready for him a deeper slavery. There was a real danger that the trapped, submissive Winston...