Word: hushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...payola," Russia has its own Aaron Brenner, chief of Moscow's Bus Depot No. 7. Brenner auctioned off the best routes to drivers, charged them 150 rubles when their buses needed new motors, 200 for a new bus, 500 rubles hush money whenever they had an accident. Not satisfied with all this, he falsified his books, and before the government got on to him, bilked the state of some 700,000 rubles in a single year...
...four U.S. sergeants stationed at Izmir were arrested on charges of currency black-marketing, and two in turn accused Turkish cops of torturing them (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.), drags on in the slow-moving Turkish courts. While the State Department, in deference to its NATO partner, tried to hush up the whole affair, NATO Supreme Commander Lauris Norstad dispatched from Paris a personal investigating team headed by Major General Joseph Carroll, a onetime top FBIman, who was commissioned an Air Force Reserve colonel in 1948 to do police work. Carroll and his team made a study of black-marketing...
...were the victims. Implicated in the first week's disclosures by New York's Commissioner of Investigation Louis Kaplan were at least 100 butchers, a union president, the city's director of the Bureau of Weights and Measures, and a bureau inspector. The crime: extortion of hush money from butchers who cheated their customers...
...strict seating plan enforced by flacks and headwaiters deployed the guests at six reserved tables, each equipped with three massive tins of caviar and assorted beverages. Dressed remarkably simply (she wore no jewelry other than diamonds), and more beautiful than ever, Hostess Elizabeth Taylor had just made her hush-provoking entrance when a crisis faced her. A party of 15, variously described as headed by a Brooklyn dentist or a merry widow, who had seen the earlier show, refused to make way for some of Liz's guests...
...production appeared on NBC's Dave Garroway Show to hear the reviews read to the world for the first time over the airways. "I knew about the audience," Mr. MacLeish reported later. "But I guess the first time I was really knocked over was then." In a tense hush, Garroway read aloud the considered judgement of the dean of theatrical journalists and single most commercially powerful critic in New York or Boston, Brooks Atkinson (Harvard, '17) of the New York Times: "One of the memorable works of the century as verse, as drama and as spiritual inquiry ... magnificent ... In every...