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HUAC, the (oh)



the House Un-American Activities Committee a group in the US House of Representatives which tried to find out whether US citizens were enemies of the government. It was especially active during the early 1950s as a result of McCarthyism . At this time, the Committee judged many cases involving politicians, military officers, and Other well-known people who were believed to be Communists . It stopped operating in 1975.

valkyria (medicine)


valkyria


One of the maidens of Odin, represented as awful and beautiful, who presided over battle and marked out those who were to be slain, and who also ministered at the feasts of heroes in Valhalla.

Alternative forms: Valkyr, and Walkyr.

Origin: Icel. Valkyrja (akin to AS. Waelcyrie); valr the slain + kjosa to choose. See Valhalla, and Choose.

Source: Websters Dictionary