Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hush falls over the crowd--your janitor, jingling a keyring in his annual show of authority, emerges from the leafy green of Harvard yard and mounts the steps. You scan the competition, looking for an angle that will bring you through the door before your still-anonymous cohabitants...
...Nahant. Hull and Revere, respectively. They are MDC maintained, and they look it. On a busy weekend, most people don't bother to police their bad instincts, so what you have is a lot of trash. Revere and Nantasket have always been adjacent to amusement parks, and the hush of the waves is complimented by traffic noise and the sound of nearby mechanical thrills. Revere Beach, however, is beginning to clean up its act--the amusements are going elsewhere, and the beach is expected to lose its Coney Island Jr. atmosphere. All of these beaches are accessible by subway. There...
...hush suddenly falls on a small crowd of students gathered outside the Geological Lecture Hall. The students, who are waiting for the lecture hall to open so that they can take their places for Gov. 20, "Introduction to Comparative Government," have spotted their professor, Karl W. Deutsch, walking toward them. All eyes focus on the Stanfield Professor of International Peace and all conversation stops. No one knows quite what to say or how to act in front of world-renowned professor. Deutsch himself seems a bit ill at ease with all the attention, but he sits down on the first...
...predominantly female crowd gathered near the State House to protest the murders, news of the ninth murder was released and a hush fell over the assembly. Many women angrily changed the number of killings listed on their placards...
...hush fell over this assemblage and all that could be heard was the chirping of a bewildered bird--"How well the silvery voice of the warbler with its joyous and innocent twitter blends with the fragrance of the lily of the valley...