Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warning by calling the food conference at such short notice. No nation will have time to prepare adequately. The agenda was couched in the foggiest of diplomatic language. And since only experts will be present, no binding agreements can be reached. (A White House plan to make it a hush-hush affair by barring the press was reluctantly withdrawn...
Until recently C.I.O. has tried to hush-hush the split between its Communist minority and its vast rank & file. By the time hard-hitting, straight-talking Jim Carey was through, the hush was ended, and his own position as a top-rank C.I.O. officer was abundantly plain. Said he: "We believe that the shaping of a new world is the fundamental responsibility of labor in all countries, and we of the C.I.O. are dedicated to that goal. . . . Having made this clear, let me make equally plain that we do not view this program for common action...
Also promoted, to brigadier general, were 71 colonels (including William J. Donovan, head of the War Department's super-hush-hush Office of Strategic Services, who had been quietly ordered to active duty). The Army, which has now passed the 5,500,000 mark, has about twice as many general officers as it ever had before. And many more will wear stars by the time the Army reaches its top strength of 8,200,000 at year...
...Sergeant at Arms walked up the aisle, removed the heavy gold mace from the table before the Speaker's chair. A hush settled on the House of Commons. A clerk spoke, in flat tones: "It is with extreme sorrow I have to inform the House that Mr. Speaker died this afternoon...
...years of Georgia O'Keeffe's painting life, are a superb catalogue. They include the abstractions, the giant flowers, trees, shells, bones, skulls and landscapes which once caused the New York Sun's Critic Henry McBride to remark that only Georgia O'Keeffe could "so hush up a bunch of lady art connoisseurs and make them go whispering on tiptoes about a gallery." O'Keeffe's huge flowers include jack-in-the-pulpits, hollyhocks, larkspur, the 3-by-2½-ft. Black Iris, which the Institute's Art Director Daniel Catton Rich described...