Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early in World War I Manstein was severely wounded. On recovery he fought at Verdun, drew attention by his energy, will power, harshness. He remained with the army after defeat, served on the hush-hush postwar General Staff, helped to build up the Wehrmacht for the war of revenge...
...leads in a few horse operas - to look after her ailing mother. A shameless doll lover, she dressed up a small bisque (ceramic) baby doll for a friend who worked at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Next day she had 450 orders from admiring Met employes. Of her original "Hush-a-bye Baby" model she now says, "it became so popular we had to drop it." It gave her no time for her main idea: to make collections of "storybook dolls" illustrating nursery tales and jingles...
...precision bombers recently turned from their usual runs, attacked a hush-hush plant at Rjukan, Norway, where German chemists were supposed to be fashioning a new superexplosive...
...Hush. Newsmen of the democratic nations, already chafing under censorship and official fumbling of news, had run into more of the same at Cairo. They were barred from news sources by barbed wire, got only prissy chit-chat in place of solid news. But with these restrictions they had no great quarrel. They knew that the safety of the conferees might hang on discreet silence...
...school was organized in June of 1942 as one of the most hush-hush of all Harvard's war activities, but news about it began to leak out around the end of the year, and Time Magazine told the complete story of the school in January of this year. The commander officer of the school is Lieutenant-Colonel John Hoflin...