Word: hushedly
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...when Mike Nichols and Elaine May did their spiel for a Jax beer cartoon, involving a surrealistic flirtation between a female waitress and a male kangaroo ("How do I know you're not a kangaroo dressed up in a girl suit?"), voices in the audience had a cathedral hush: "This is real entertainment...
...crowd in the House galleries filled every seat, overflowed into the aisles. Over both the galleries and the floor of the House brooded a hush of expectancy, as if some history-making drama were about to unfold...
...writer Ni Shi-tan, had been summarily sentenced to seven years in prison for "sedition" for criticizing the Nationalist government. His case got almost no attention either inside or outside Formosa. But last week the case of Publisher Lei Chen (TIME, Sept. 19) was proving about as easy to hush up as a typhoon...
Even more touching was the situation of the poor man in In the Baggage Coach Ahead (1896), who sat in a train trying to hush his crying baby. The child's face reminded him of his late wife, making the trip in a coffin elsewhere on the train...
...Historian C.E. Lucas Phillips, the great raid remains a deed of glory-the achievement of an improbable military objective by an unbeatable combination of painstaking plans and inspired improvisation. Lucas Phillips reports it all, from the first casual conversations of Lord Louis Mountbatten with his staff to the final, hush-hush training exercise off the Scilly Isles, from the apparently aimless bombing raid on St. Nazaire to the escape attempts of captured British commandos...