Word: hushed
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...Duracell, having witnessed the inroads a determined Japanese competitor like Fuji could make in film--in retail channels similar to batteries--are on guard. Duracell is promoting the same Oxyride technology in its newly released, higher-priced PowerPix-brand batteries, which, ironically, it acquired from Panasonic in a hush-hush licensing agreement that neither company will comment...
...first thing you notice upon entering the center's private residential wing is the library-like hush. Interior lights remain off during daytime, putting the halls and chambers of the numeraries in a half-light. The blue carpeting on the floors is unmistakably institutional, and the aging hardwood furniture, oil paintings of ships at sea adorning the walls and wooden doorways with transoms give the place an almost clubby, old-world feel. This is the beating heart of Opus Dei. The chambers themselves, where a dozen numeraries and priests make their homes, are spartan and impeccably orderly. Hardly a scrap...
Peter J. Gomes, the Plummer professor of Christian morals and an expert on Harvard’s history, said Summers’ firing, if it happened, would be a “very hush-hush sort of thing...
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...music from the Games that take place in the summer. Then, even the longest and most lonesome event - the marathon - is run amid the constant roar of crowds cheering every step of the race. The Winter Games has its own supply of electricity, but it's more a gathering hush as athletes contend with their frozen surroundings. You hear it in the cross-country skier's gasping solitary climb up a snowy hillside or in the sharp swoosh of a perilous slide down a bobsled track. Sometimes there's no sound but the wind as the ski jumper silently soars...