Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the organ's first notes trembled into the hush, began the solemn and ancient pageantry with which the Roman Catholic Church sends its kings, its great men, its princes of the clergy from this world. The East Side's Al Smith lay below the sanctuary, in a shrouded casket on a catafalque flanked by six tall, flickering candles. The altar before it was bright with the purple garb of bishops and the monsignori...
...later speech. But he stated his big premise: "The New Deal really believes that we cannot have good social legislation and also good jobs for all. I believe ... we can have both. . . . We can have both opportunity and security within the framework of a free society." "No Hush-Hush Peace." Dewey en trained for Louisville, making two plat form appearances on the way, at Rich mond and Indianapolis. Neither had been advertised in advance; the crowds that turned out were small. In Louisville, Dewey rode through almost empty streets to the Brown Hotel...
...range peace organization. His conception of a permanent peace organization was squarely in line with the plans submitted to Dumbarton Oaks, but with this difference: "I believe this is a subject which should be talked about widely, earnestly, and publicly. . . . We cannot meet the problems of peace on any hush-hush, pussyfoot basis. . . . That world organization must be the work of many minds. No one man, or three or four men, can shape it. Some 60 nations, great and small, must help shape it, believe in it, join it, and make it work...
Author Sherrod doesn't try to hush up the plain, stark fear that even Marines may give in to under fire. "Colonel," cried a young major desperately, on the second day, "there are a thousand goddamn Marines out there on that beach, and not one will follow me across to the air strip." Replied the Colonel: "You've got to say, 'Who'll follow me?' And if only ten follow you . . . it's better than nothing...
Tucked away in timbered, fish-oil-soaked sheds on Seattle's waterfront is a super hush-hush business : salmon egg canning. Though even Seattleites know little about it, this small-fry business is of strategic importance to fishermen everywhere...