Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phillips Brooks House serves 1150 people hundreds of gallons o tea each week. On Tuesday afternoon, the Cruft wives, whose husbands are working on hush-hush stuff at the Cruft laboratories, gather for the India drink, and their husbands join them in an outgoing tea at the end of the course. The Navy wives have their tea on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Union. Research groups have teas once or twice a month...
...Army at last broke secrecy on its most hush-hush subject-its search for new weapons and devices. For the first time in this war, it permitted the National Inventors Council to make public a list of some things the Army needs, invited amateur inventors to put their ingenuity to work on these specific problems...
Into the library hush of the quasi-official U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, an admiral tossed a small bomb with a big bang. The Admiral: sharp-minded Rear Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell, 67, formerly in command of the Asiatic Fleet, called from retirement in June to active duty in the office of COM INCH Admiral Ernest J. King. The bomb: a well-weighed proposal that the U.S. combine Army, Navy and air forces into a single, unified Department...
After the planes had gone a hush settled over the battlefield. Soldiers left their foxholes and stopped to chat with one an other. In the strange quiet, men's spirits began rapidly to soar. Chuck Horner said: "This is the hardest battle we've had since El Guettar. I think"cross your fingers"we're going to get Troina tonight." Another Night. Except for the small pocket on our right, the Germans seemed to have departed. Chuck Horner chose a patrol to scout the approaches to the town. As the sun sank behind the hills, casting...
...Politics," said Cardinal Manning, "is a part of morals." It was a part of morals that has dogged Pacelli even on his most apostolic and least political missions, even when he was gently (but sure-handedly) weaving the diplomacy of the Church Militant in the reverent hush of the Secretariat of State. Whether the morals of Pacelli's diplomacy were good or bad morals is a violently debated issue...