Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's most powerful bank, a financial monstrosity with a "resource potential" of more than $14 billion which it could lend to states, municipalities, private banks, private businessmen, private citizens. In a 12-story building on Vermont Ave., amidst chromium and marble, in a magnificent air-cooled hush preside the giants who control this enterprise-the five directors. Harry Truman thought George should he one of them...
Bjartur has been gone for days. He knew his wife's time was near, but one of his sheep was lost, so he tramped off across the moors to find it. His wife begged him to stay at home, but he told her to hush: "I'm sick of listening to this hysterical babble." Bjartur is used to doing things his own way. He takes back talk from no one. He is, he likes to boast, an independent...
Fauteux, in his impressive black robes, with his tricornered hat walked in. He took his impressive seat. There was a slight hush...
Planes zoomed overhead, but only the hunch-players were reminded of a 50-to-1 shot called Airborne. There was a hush as three stately maroon Daimlers rolled up the track to leave their passengers at the Royal Box. The whisper "They're off!" sounded as it always...
...little contact with anybody, even members of his family. He took walks by himself, ate meals by himself, published the few pieces he was able to publish anonymously or under an assumed name. "Not many writers," says Editor Arvin in his introduction, "worked so long amid such a hush or in such a shadow." Hawthorne's literary interests hardly explain the hush and shadow, although the hush and shadow go far to explain his literary interests...