Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE'S A KIND OF HUSH ALL OVER THE WORLD (MGM). Anyone who listens to rock 'n' roll on the radio can't help hearing about hearing that hush-"the sounds of lovers in love." The sunny troubadors are Herman's Hermits who also sing such post-nursery rhymes as Little Miss Sorrow, Child of Tomorrow, If You're Thinkin' What I'm Thinkin' and No Milk Today...
Crowds of New Yorkers surging past the Whitney Museum's Andrew Wyeth show (TIME, Feb. 24), which has already drawn 170,000 visitors, found themselves in for a delightful surprise when they reached the topmost gallery. There an almost cathedral hush was induced by a full-scale retrospective display of the work of Sculptor Louise Nevelson. Awed spectators moved from darkened room to darkened room, observing Nevelson's monumental spotlighted pillars and walls built of orange crates, dowels, spindles and other bits of wooden bric-a-brac but sprayed either all black, all white or all gold. America...
Conversion? On the face of it, swarthy, Dutch-born George Behar Blake, 44, was a British MI-6 (military intelligence) agent who had sold out to the Russians, and for nine years-from Berlin, London and Beirut-fed Moscow everything that came his way. At his hush-hush trial in 1961, Blake admitted to passing "every document" he saw to the Russians, thus blowing the covers of British agents in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. It took the court only 69 minutes to award Blake the longest sentence for espionage in recent British history: 42 years.* The trial raised...
...hush did not fall over Winthrop House Dining Room as Frank stabbed blindly at the top sheet. Sometimes his pencil landed on a name, in which case its owner became one of the chosen 120. Sometimes the Kennedy Institute's special assistant for undergraduate affairs missed the paper entirely. "I don't understand," said a member of the audience. "Neither do I," responded Frank, and stabbed again...
...Vollmer religiously repeats "I am a banker" 50 times every day, he only begins to get rapid promotions after the bank president has exposed himself on two separate occasions before Francis' wife. When the bank president commits suicide, Francis is so close to the top that he can hush up the scandal with his left hand while his right hand is slipping $450,000 in crisp bills into manila envelopes destined for a Swiss numbered account...