Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt had made another decision: to leave his leg braces at home. There was a momentary hush as he came into the chamber in an armless wheelchair. Then there was an ovation. The President slipped into a red plush chair in the well of the House, behind a table lined with a dozen microphones. As the flashbulbs popped and newsreels ground, he turned to wave to Vice President Truman and House Majority Leader McCormack on the dais...
...Readers should be spared the half-buzz-half-hush of libraries, "which is distinctly worse than overhead riveting...
...night of Jan. 30, Private Edward S. Gordon of the 4th Marines was eating a piece of bread he had made from rice flour. Rifle fire shattered the darkness. A Jap sentry, standing on a watch tower listening to the night's hush, tumbled to the earth. The crump of grenades mingled with ripping bursts from automatic weapons. Japs screamed orders, fell before the headlong rush of dimly seen figures brandishing knives and pistols. Unmistakably American voices yelled: "This is a prison break-make for the main gate! These are Yanks...
...most of the liberated countries of Europe last week there was, if not political peace, a political hush. Even in Greece the civil war had been halted by a truce (see below). Elsewhere there were no mass demonstrations, no riots in the streets. No crowds baited the police or shouted threateningly under government windows. What had caused this reckless tranquility? TIME Correspondent Harry Zinder, following the Allied forces as they slowly pushed back the Belgian bulge, reported one reason...
...spelled trouble for Author Alexander Barmine, a onetime Red Army brigadier general, onetime boss of Soviet exports of autos, aviation equipment and armaments. Barmine, disillusioned with the U.S.S.R., broke with the Soviet Union in 1937, came to the U.S., where he has worked as a translator with the hush-hush Office of Strategic Services. Barmine's article said, in part...