Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilfred J. Funk's listing of the ten most beautiful words in the English language [June 11] was a challenge to use them all in one short sentence. "The luminous mist rose from the murmuring brook at the hush of dawn with a melody like a tranquil lullaby of golden chimes...
...class poet and began absorbing all the world's words. He became company president in 1925, later started his own publishing house (Wilfred Funk, Inc.). He tried his hand at light verse, drew up a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language (dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody) and the ten most overworked (okay, terrific, lousy, definitely, racket, gal, honey, swell, contact, impact'). He even compiled a canine dictionary of 204 words that every well-bred dog should understand, ranging from a basic siccum to slippers and ice cream...
Brown of the University of Pennsylva nia. The panel's report, "Potential Haz ards of Back Contamination from the Planets," was made public last week after nearly a year of hush-hush treatment by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It added a chill ing new factor to the future of space exploration...
There was a hush over Hanoi last week-an air of impending doom as palpable as the crachin, the drizzle that cools the city each afternoon. From all sides the growing weight of U.S. air power pressed in on North Viet Nam's capital. Jets roamed the skies almost at will, striking day after day with surgical precision at North Viet Nam's tenuous communication and transportation line. American bombs still fell short of North Viet Nam's cities and factories, though an occasional power plant was hit when it happened to be near a road...
...search of a solution, financial experts from the ten leading industrial nations-the so-called Group of Ten-met two weeks ago in Paris to weigh various proposals, on which they will report next month. The U.S. has assigned a hush-hush group of economists and bankers to study possible reforms under the direction of Frederick Deming, the Treasury's Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs. Other study groups have been put to work by the 102-nation International Monetary Fund, by Europe's Common Market, by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and by governments from Berne...