Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minor victory to belch blatant, optimistic headlines and then, conversely, relegate our own losses to squeamish type or the back pages, it is no wonder that we are overoptimistic. When Washington luminaries drop intangible statements or "in-the-know" hints about our military successes, but on the other hand hush our defeats ... it can plainly be seen that the burden of guilt rests squarely on the politicians' and publishers' shoulders. That is the main cause of this subconscious letdown in war production...
Other difficulties have also beset potential chroniclers of the doings of the A-L mob. For instance, there's the darndest amount of hush-hush which must surround our pursuits (including the extra-curricular ones, of course). All we can say is that the boys are learning xxxx xxxx xxxx, and studying all there is to know about...
This was no cat-&-dog wrangle. Behind the potent new committee (The Airlines Committee on International Routes) was the tremendous prestige-and smart flyer's brains-of the Army Air Forces' chief, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold. Ten days ago, General Arnold hastily called a hush-hush meeting in Washington of the U.S. airlines which operate routes for the Army's world-straddling Air Transport Command. (Pan American was included.) General Arnold advised them to take steps...
...subject of foreign air routes is the main concern of a hush-hush Interdepartmental Committee on International Aviation, of which CABoss Pogue is a member and Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. is chairman. Other members : Artemus Gates and Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Secretaries for Air of Navy and War; Wayne Chatfield Taylor, Under Secretary of Commerce; and Milo Perkins, executive director of the Board of Economic Warfare. Their report will probably be made public next September, when an Anglo-American conference on postwar aviation will be held in Washington...
German officialdom paid a reluctant but handsome compliment to U.S. tanks last week, and incidentally pried the lid off a hush-hush American development-a gyrostabilizer mount to keep the tank gun aiming steadily. Reporting a display of captured Allied materiel, the Nazi news agency D.N.B. said...