Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little tufts of coarse red rag fluttered bravely on the tips of the fetish sticks which that morning had been set up in position around the arena. There was an expectant hush as the spectators, massed on the tiers of rock which formed the amphitheatre, settled in their places...
...American funeral director-that dispenser of authoritative and soothing advice-has suddenly found himself shouted at, reproached and de plored in a clamor that has shattered the hush of the nation's funeral parlors and made many an undertaker sweat uneasily beneath his decent black suit...
...into this reverent hush, two Sabbaths ago, that 500 cheerful American and European Baptists drew up in 20 buses, having come, on tourism bent, through the Mandelbaum Gate from Jordanian Jerusalem. The Orthodox Jews of Mea She'arim were dumfounded with outrage-and none more than a lean, hawk-eyed man who has a fair claim to the title of the world's most orthodox Orthodox Jew. On occasion, he even shows up in sackcloth and ashes. He is Amram Blau, 63, leader of a fanatical Mea She'arim sect called the Neturei Karta (guardians...
...ghostly reminders of the lost swing and jump clubs. There is none of the throbbing, wailing excitement that jazz grew up on, and very little of the old, wild fun. The ennui flows like wine in the new midnight world (no one would dream of dancing), and the hush is nearly deafening...
Some Second Thoughts. At that point, the U.S. Government, apparently in an attempt to avoid handing Castro a propaganda weapon, continued the hush-up begun by Jackson and Szili. Jackson was denied a court-martial; its findings would have been public. Instead, Jackson, with only 18 months to go before completing 20 years of service and becoming eligible for a pension of $260 a month, was forced to resign from the Corps. So were Szili and two other officers who had helped bury Lopez. Jackson, said Szili, has made no public complaint because "he is a very patriotic...