Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's official hush and hesitancy brought no further explanation of the Hesscapade. The celebrated riddle-did Hess seek peace with the British, or peace from Hitler?-had already vanished into the back pages. The Nazis called the affair closed, though rumors of arrests in Germany persisted. If the British had found the answer, they kept it to themselves. Winston Churchill declined to make a statement. Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair simply denied that the boxing, flying Duke of Hamilton, whom Hess said he came seeking, had even corresponded with Rudolf Hess...
...Kaiser did not care. His loud proposal had served its purpose, which was to get him enough steel to supply his Richmond, Calif, shipyard. The industry moved him up on its own private priorities list (at the expense of less vocal customers); he is building his ships with hush steel...
...building of our national defense, so that optimistic generalities prevail. The absurd "voluntary censorship" on the presence of British warships in New York and San Francisco harbors was an attempt to keep ammunition from the isolationists. Coming closer to home, a new military activity at Harvard is being hush-hushed by Washington simply to avoid appeals for the same from other colleges. A small but juicy scandal concerning national defense and Administration foreign policy came out of a recent Crimson news interview, but was squelched by bureaucratic frowns...
...great hush-hush attended the proceedings where Ovakimian was held for $25,-ooo bail. When the U.S. attorney said that Ovakimian was a key figure in the Government's spy investigations, an FBI man shushed him in alarm. Ovakimian growled at the Soviet consul general, who treated him with vast respect (and posted a $25,000 bond with $50 and $100 bills), identified himself first as a buyer for Amtorg Trading Corp., next as representative of the "chemical trust," last as an agent of "the Commissariat." Around the Amtorg office he was always a feared and mysterious figure...
...machine guns, has a range of 500 miles at cruising speed (350 m.p.h.). > The Curtiss pursuit (Anglice: "Tomahawk") carries two .50-calibre, four .30-calibre machine guns, has a service ceiling of 30,000 feet, top speed of 350. ¶ North American's NA-73 (Anglice: "Mustang")-very hush-hush in the U. S. and barely mentionable in the press-has a top of 398, carries six guns. ¶ Army's new four-motored Consolidated ("Liberator") does a fancy (for a bomber) 335 m.p.h., has a range of 3,000 miles with two tons of bombs. ¶ Navy...