Word: hushedly
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...intellectuals sternly debated the question of whether Cinemactress Kim Novak can dance on the head of a pin. Reviewing her latest movie, Strangers When We Meet, Critic Stanley Kauffmann announced in the New Republic that Kim's diction struck him as an "unvaried strangulated hush." Charging to her defense, gallant young Author John Updike first of all pointed out in a letter to the editors that "she is a terrific-looking woman." Lectured Updike: "To criticize Miss Novak because her tone of voice is always the same is as absurd as criticizing a Byzantine ikon because it is static...
...hush settled over the House of Commons. On the benches, every member wore a black tie; the galleries were crowded with peers, ambassadors and solemn visitors. At 62, Aneurin Bevan was dead, and the House of Commons paid him homage. "He was a bonny fighter, and a chivalrous one," said Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, chief of the party Bevan had railed against all his life. Said Labor's Hugh Gaitskell: "His death is as if a fire had gone out-a fire which we sometimes found too hot, by which we were sometimes scorched, but a fire which warmed...
...housewife tilts back her head and breaks into a toothy grin. A girl smiles with obvious pleasure, perhaps because of a new and unusual spit curl. A boy swings wide his arms in innocent merriment, while another brings a tiny hand to his lips as if trying to hush his own irrepressible giggles...
...book opens, a scientific fraud in the form of a faked photo of an experiment is uncovered, and a court of dons quietly strips the seeming culprit of his rank as a university fellow. Hush-hush becomes buzz-buzz as the ex-fellow, Donald Howard, insists that his renowned old scientific mentor, now dead, framed him. To compound this apparent caddishness, Howard is also a fellow traveler and a boorish personality. His only ally is the conscience of a few of his colleagues who fear justice has miscarried...
...Hush little 'Baccy...