Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sixth race, a sudden hush fell on the stands. Rounding the turn, Bosca, the favorite, tripped. Two other horses piled on her. Bosca lay on the track dead, her neck broken. Her jockey was rushed away in an ambulance. It was Earl Dew. Before he could get his applause and his gold watch, Hero Earl Dew died of a fractured skull...
...they had defamed the Lundquist faction. Principals in the fight were meanwhile suspended. Last month, 2,000 members assembled to hear the first group of the trial board's reports and pass judgment. The meeting opened with music and drum majorettes cavorting on the stage, fell into a hush when the trial board began to read a report on Vice President Keppler...
From 660 B.C. to 1940 A.D., according to the Japanese credo, the sons of Jimmu Tennō ruled and begat, with the aid of Shoguns, concubines and kinfolks. Down through the years Imperial legends unfolded into a religion and Imperial symbols became as hush-hush as primitive taboos-the divine sword, the jewel, the mirror. The Emperors took the 16-petaled chrysanthemum as a sort of sacred trademark. Modern Japanese are skeptical, sometimes even resentful, of these legends and taboos, but even the best educated observe the outward forms...
...regulations were adopted in response to last year's led by the Daily Princetonian, undergraduate paper, against "false standards of social stratification" and "hush-hush ritual...
...birthday of a homely old university. To the shirt-sleeved sons of Penn seated in camp-meeting chairs on the Quadrangle grass, it spoke of Founder Ben Franklin, of Philadelphia, cradle of U. S. freedom, of old-fashioned sanity. But the ancient bell merely interrupted, did not dispel the hush of uncertainty and gloom that hung over Penn's Bicentennial...