Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it was bruited about that he might also be available for other high office, might even be available as a Presidential dark horse, he made no attempt to hush the talk. So much availability nettled his boyhood friend, Senator Bennett Champ Clark, who is rather dark-horsy himself. Stark, cracked Clark, was a candidate for President, Vice President, Secretary of the Navy, War, High Commissioner to the Philippines, Ambassador to Great Britain, and "has been favorably mentioned as the Akhoond of Swat." Said Clark, he preferred a less scattered character, would therefore support the incumbent, Senator Harry Truman...
...sample, bombers crippled the vital Eighty-Three Kilometre Bridge (just inside China's border) so badly that the whole line from Indo-China may be broken for a month. Tokyo hastened to hush up the warning over the Army's head...