Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock that night, a portentous hush settled on the German radio. Then came a flourish of trumpets, followed by the announcer's voice, vibrant with pride and triumph: "The Führer's Headquarters. The German High Command announces: A sub marine commanded by Senior Lieutenant von Billow has sunk in the middle of the North Atlantic the American aircraft carrier Ranger, employed to guard Atlantic convoy routes. The Führer has awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross [of the Iron Cross] to Lieutenant von Bülow, the 234th member...
...Russian political offensive against the Polish Government in Exile gathered power and speed. In London, the Poles dithered. With an increasingly tense air of hush-hush, the British tried hard to find an acceptable compromise. The Moscow-formed Union of Polish Patriots set up a national council in Poland which could easily and quickly become a Polish government acceptable to Moscow. For the Russians' money, the argument would then be over. But Britain...
Last month, after numerous hush-hush trips by special emissaries, PRC officially sent a full-fledged geological mission to the British-dominated Middle East - an area which Harold Ickes rightly described as the coming "capital of the oil empire" (TIME...
...sincere critical praise, popular plays on the level of Broadway thrillers, poems, esoteric novels, mildly erotic, but too keenly perceptive to be pornographic, expositions of his theory of unanimism, experiments in telepathy, in Extra-Retinal Vision. He was also a lecturer in philosophy, and a one-man conspiracy with hush-hush dealings with people like King Leopold of Belgium, General Gamelin, Premier Daladier, Otto Abetz, then Chief of Nazi Propagandist in France-under the delusion (as ingenuously described by him in his Seven Mysteries of Europe) that they were Men of Good Will...
...buildings was wrecked. The Germans fired machine guns, machine pistols, rifles and rifle grenades from every window and balcony. The Americans answered with bazookas, grenades, quick-firing 37-mm. antitank guns. So close and confused was the melee that officers talking over field telephones had to hush their voices lest the enemy in the same or the next building overhear...