Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bridge. Finally, Martin Luther King arrived, having committed himself to the deal proposed by Collins and approved by Smitherman, Lingo and Clark. His unsuspecting listeners settled into a respectful hush as he spoke of his "painful and difficult decision." Said King with great emotion: "I have made my choice. I have got to march. I do not know what lies ahead of us. There may be beatings, jailings, tear gas. But I would rather die on the highways of Alabama than make a butchery of my conscience! There is nothing more tragic in all this world than to know right...
...Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte is a gruesome slice of shock therapy that, pointedly, is not a sequel to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? The two films are blood relatives, as Producer-Director Robert Aldrich well knows, but Charlotte has a worse plot, more gore, and enough bitchery to fill several outrageous freak shows...
...grass, stuff, boo, hemp and Mary Jane-seems to be this year's way among students of preserving the perennial illusion that the younger generation is going to hell. Statistics on the problem are nonexistent, and its extent is tough to gauge. School officials normally ignore it or hush it up; students with first-hand knowledge are prone to boastful exaggeration; arrests are relatively rare...
...Washington in 1959. In 1961 he delivered a public warning against the dangerous methods being used by certain Catholic scriptural scholars. Two years ago, he persuaded a few U.S. bishops to cancel speaking engagements by Swiss Theologian Hans Kung. More recently, he has advised U.S. church authorities to hush some outspoken lay Catholic journalists, notably Freelance Writer Michael Novak (A New Generation, The Open Church), a doctoral student at Harvard. The American hierarchy does not much relish Vagnozzi's intervention. "A Papal Nuncio is one step higher than an Apostolic Delegate," mused one U.S. cardinal. "Maybe...
...functioning perfectly and nine points chalked up toward the 1965 Grand Prix championship, Clark quickly forgot the pain in his back. "It feels good to be back on top again," he beamed. Come June, factory mechanics will replace his Lotus' 195-h.p. V-8 Climax engine with a hush-hush 16-cylinder job that is supposed to have something of the same effect as gluing two of the old engines together. "Nothing much to it," shrugged a Lotus engineer. "We are simply picking up a bit more power, that...