The Century: America’s Time – 1946-1952: Best Years — Transcript

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I am the innocent.

Just means attack Pearl Harbor by air.

That's not.

What your country can do for you.

Kennedy has been shot.

One small step for man.

These truths to be self-evident.

That all men are created equal.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

Fulton, Missouri, in America's heartland.

In March of 1946, Fulton was a sleepy college town of 12,000 people about to face the biggest day in its history.

Only six months after the end of World War II, one of the true giants of the 20th century arrived in President Harry Truman's home state.

Truman thought it'd be just wonderful if he brought the great Winston Churchill out to Missouri to make a speech.

He loved the idea of bringing the Prime Minister to a small college in the middle of Missouri that nobody ever heard of.

Just a wonderful thing to have not only the President of the United States in town, but Winston Churchill, the Lion of England.

And so everybody was excited, it was, you know, the atmosphere was charged, it really was.

But Churchill wasn't there to celebrate, he had come to sound an alarm.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent.

Behind that curtain, after the war, the countries of Eastern Europe had been trapped under Soviet domination.

I remember even feeling kind of indignant that the Russians weren't playing fair, weren't being nice.

Churchill told America there was still a tyrant left in Europe, the Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin.

Joseph Stalin was a real son of a bitch, there was a real brutality.

When Stalin heard about Churchill's speech, he called it an act of war.

It was presented as the imminent attack of America on Russia.

The United States and the Soviet Union had been allies in World War II, now they would turn against each other, the Cold War would last for more than 40 years.

Time Magazine publisher Henry Luce had predicted that an American century would follow the end of World War II, and by 1946, the world was beginning to witness it, while the map of devastated Europe was redrawn at conferences in Yalta and Potsdam, across the Atlantic, America had emerged from the conflict stronger and more prosperous than ever before, and yet America would be called on again, and in that sense, Churchill's speech was both a warning and an exhortation, if the free world needed a protector from the evils of Stalin, it would have to be the United States of America.

In the fall of 1945, the Second World War, history's greatest armed conflict was over.

America's sons and husbands and fathers were coming home.

I flew to Bremen.

And my wife met me.

That was great.

She was beautiful.

As usual.

And she had, she normally doesn't wear a lot of makeup.

But she had makeup on.

It was running down her face.

Oh, it's the most thrilling, exciting time of your whole life.

There's nothing compares to coming home to your loved ones.

It was heaven.

That was heaven.

I mean, I was just a kid, I was just barely 20, I guess, when I got out of service.

There was that whole strangeness of having been so fully committed to the war.

To danger, to whatever it was you were doing.

Then suddenly a kind of decompression chamber, which was filled with uncertainty.

Returning veterans had reasons to worry about what peace would bring.

Factories that had worked around the clock during the war now had few jobs to offer.

All the GIs were coming home.

There were no jobs.

And I found a job for a dollar an hour, um, refinishing damaged refrigerators from freight yards.

Dirty, lousy job.

But I took it.

Even before the war ended, the government realized that the transition to civilian life would be difficult.

In 1944, Congress passed the GI Bill of Rights.

It guaranteed vets low-cost mortgages and higher education.

Think of what that would mean.

Fantastic, people could go to medical school, dental school.

Do anything they wanted.

Paid for by the government.

It paid me to study the history of English poetry at Harvard of all things.

Just the way it paid somebody else to study a very practical and utilitarian subject in South Dakota.

It was absolutely democratic and indiscriminate in the highest sense.

Vets would, after a brief lull, be swept into an American economy rich in unprecedented productivity and opportunity.

We were the arsenal of democracy, all you had to do is throw a switch.

And go from producing tanks and airplanes and jeeps to cars and refrigerators.

By '47, '48, the economy was zooming.

The driving force behind the booming economy was the American consumer.

There hadn't been much to buy during the war.

Americans had built up their savings and now they were ready to spend.

We had gathered this phenomenal strength that we didn't know we had.

And we were living twice as well.

Everybody was.

Wages, productivity, everything had just increased in a way that no one had ever experienced.

The newly vibrant economy and the need for veterans housing would inspire one entrepreneur to transform thousands of acres of New York potato fields into a new kind of American community.

We believe that every family in the United States is entitled to decent shelter.

Navy veteran Bill Levitt imagined thousands of homes here and he devised a way to build them fast.

Levitt's genius is that he understands that you bring the assembly line to the location.

That you flatten the potato field, you mark it off, and in come the teams.

Slab men, tile men, window men, painting guys.

Uh, and they could do, I think, uh, 18 houses in the morning.

18 in the afternoon, 180 a week.

And $8,000.

You could buy a great house.

It was an amazing thing.

And for the first time you had this whole society moving into the middle class.

The Levitt approach spread across the country, making life in the suburbs affordable for millions.

We got our first house, very small, 700 square foot.

But we were thrilled with it.

Two bedroom, one bath home.

Good night.

It was wonderful.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin.

To make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.

The bullets made little periods where they went in.

And turned into commas as the blood welled out.

I looked at her, she was taking off her clothes.

Oh, Mike, I really want you.

She walked toward me, her hips waving a happy hello.

It was the coming of the Red Scare, he switched it over to knocking out commie heels.

I looked at him.

And I could tell he was a rotten commie heel.

Whatever the public wants, you're playing up to their appetite.

But what you try to do is establish that appetite for it and then you supply it.

He hit the virus, the virus, he took that virus and put it right into his books.

Which was a very good litmus paper of how much it worked and how nervous the country was.

Nowhere was the fear more damaging than in Hollywood.

In 1950, the fear that communists were somehow undermining America from within began to gain ground.

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.

It made it much easier for an obscure senator from Wisconsin to make some frightening allegations.

Strike the word leftist.

Make that communist.

Joseph McCarthy claimed that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of government.

Again, we have a known associate.

Well, it was a very uneasy time.

McCarthy on the rise, claiming that there were spies everywhere.

Communists everywhere.

And of course, it turns out there were spies everywhere.

They were stealing atomic secrets.

There was fear, there was uncertainty, insecurity.

Images of communists as evil and threatening were everywhere.

The most successful popular writer of that era, and I mean, astonishingly popular.

Was a writer named Mickey Spillane.

And he had started out with sort of traditional police detective, short, punchy.

Hemingway S sentences.

Tough guys.