Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important part of Mary's rehabilitation program was to hush up and tone down this history, while shifting the blame for the episode from Shelley to Harriet. In this ambitious task she found an ambiguous and wholly unexpected ally-a U.S. blackmailer known to the authorities as De Gibler. Among the intelligentsia he was known as "Major" George Gordon Byron. He claimed to be Lord Byron's son by a secret marriage...
...traditional hush of No. 10 Downing Street was broken last week by the sound of a precedent being shattered. Clement Attlee got himself a press secretary...
Buenos Aires' plush, proper Plaza Hotel was overrun by the multitude. Its plush was ruffled, its hush profaned by thousands of eager Argentines who stormed its glass-and-wrought-iron doors, jammed its dining rooms and lobby, crowded the street outside. They had come to applaud an unusual spectacle: a U.S. Ambassador conducting what amounted to a political rally against the Government of Strong Man Juan Domingo...
...months it has been an open secret that a patent argument between U.S. and British inventors, rather than security, has been chiefly responsible for the hush-hush policy on radar. Thus far, the U.S. and Britain have failed to agree on a radar publicity policy which would satisfy the inventors' conflicting claims...
...André Respond, anxious to hush up local gossip about Edda's high living, told the press: "Rumors that she escaped one night after her father's death and returned to the clinic intoxicated are absolutely untrue. Nevertheless, Madame Ciano occasionally does behave in a rather bizarre way. For instance, she likes to walk around barefoot like a gipsy and occasionally at night she will jump from her window into the garden for a stroll in the park and forest...