Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Singapore censorship, long the tightest encountered by correspondents on any British front, reached a new high in hush last week. CBS's celebrated radio reporter, Cecil Brown (TIME, Dec. 22), had been "disaccredited" as a broadcaster by the British authorities at Singapore...
...that flocks of absurdly twittering birds sometimes heighten the hush and piled-up darkness before a storm, the great tenseness was heightened by a number of silly episodes...
...been really right about World War II is Sir Richard Stafford Cripps. From the starting gun, he maintained that Britain's interest and Russia's were the same. In June 1940 the British Foreign Office sent him as Ambassador to Moscow, apparently as the easiest way to hush him up. Last week he addressed a paean to the Russian people, which if it was as right as his record, was good news. Of Hitler's invasion of Russia...
When President Roosevelt gave sleek, greying Colonel William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan, commander of New York's "Fighting 69th" Regiment in World War I, a new job, all kinds of hush-hush rumors about it floated around Washington: that Colonel Donovan was setting up a superspy bureau filled with blonde Mata Haris and burnoosed Arab leaders, that he was starting a U.S. version of Dr. Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, that he had been gently tucked away on a shelf, under an imposing title. Actually, his job was exactly what Franklin Roosevelt said it was: Coordinator of Information...
...radio speech, stating the general intentions of the U.S. in World War II (TIME, June 9), voices could again be heard last week engaged in War & Peace debate. Now those voices had begun to sound shrill, small and ominous, like the chittering of sparrows in the moment of hush after the first great gust announcing an approaching storm...