Word: hushed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first episode of the Story of Monica and Bill required the country to get used to the very idea that the President of the United States might have fooled around with an intern and then tried to hush her up, the second installment dared us to trust him. The first week was an All-Starr game, in which a crusading prosecutor, after 3 1/2 frustrating years of sniffing through sour Arkansas land deals, suddenly swooped down on the White House, subpoenas in hand, FBI agents in tow, asserting his right to ask just about anyone just about anything that...
...conspiracy, and the White House is claiming it had nothing to do with Merletti?s little round-robin. Still, at least the Secret Service has something to be proud of. The Merletti letter was sent December 5; whether they intended to or not, servicemen have managed to keep it hush-hush for ? oh, nearly two weeks...
...Progress. And if the Kennedy name already has a cloud over it, Hersh's book comes to market the same way. Before publication he had to remove what would have been its most titillating assertion--that the President signed a contract agreeing to pay Marilyn Monroe $600,000 in hush money to keep quiet about their alleged (but much, much rumored) affair. Hersh acted after document experts warned him that the "contract" showed signs of being a counterfeit manufactured years after both Monroe and Kennedy died...
...What's going? Is the truth in there? Despite its Mulderesque overtones, the Area 51 hush-up (which has so far received a minimum of press coverage) is more of a Constitutional tangle than an extraterrestrial one. But you never know ? and if the President has his way, you never will...
...There are a lot of people here who are into running for office but keep it hush-hush, so I admire him for putting his neck out," said first-year KSG student, Kendra D. Proctor...