Word: whisperer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Neville, TIME'S Bureau Chief in Hong Kong, runs a listening post-an ear trumpet on Red China's coast. His job is to pick up each rumble and whisper from the mainland. He hears plenty of both...
Douglas MacArthur spoke with a native eloquence that the nation had not heard in years, without bombast or gesture. The resonant voice sometimes rasped, some times sank almost to a whisper, but never rose from a low, confident pitch...
...feelings are disturbed by weak flesh and childish imaginings: he is kneeling, and his knees and back hurt, disturbing the purity of his devotions; he remembers his silly effort at self-mortification through eating worms; he imagines himself upon the cross and hearing the school's best athlete whisper, "Jesus that kid's got guts." And dismayed because every other thought seems tinctured with pride, he fervently prays: "O God forgive me! forgive me if you can stand...
...pleaded guilty. As a machinist, he said, he was assigned by the Army to Los Alamos' Manhattan Project in 1944, where he worked in the machine shop turning out apparatus from sketches drawn up by the scientists. In a voice that often dropped away to a whisper, Greenglass testified that he had no idea what he was working on until his wife came to visit him on their wedding anniversary in November 1944-eight months before the first atomic bomb exploded at Alamogordo and at a time when security regulations were so strict that Los Alamos employees were required...
...Washington, "inside sources" frequently whisper that Harry Truman knows no more about the Korean war than General MacArthur chooses to tell him. Closer to the truth is the fact that the "sources" know no more about a peripatetic, crusty major general named Frank E. Lowe than the President chooses to tell them. Since last August, 65-year-old General Lowe, with Douglas MacArthur's cooperation, has been serving as Harry Truman's "private eye" in Japan and Korea...