Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Technical excellence has been bought at a social price. The remoteness and boredom frustrate the wives who accompanied their husbands up the hill. "They're overeducated for the kind of life they lead," says Lab Staff Psychologist Frances Menlove. The sense of hush-hush urgency that still dominates the work of the Lab spills over into the social life. Gossip rains down like radioactive dust. Status symbols are precise and demanding, though in Los Alamos as in places like Cambridge, Mass., class is projected through such things as battered cars and withered clothes. Nuclear families here "are headed...
...lights and correspondents crowded around to ask questions. All they got was a three-second glimpse of him closing the door. After a quick huddle with more aides, Kennedy popped across the hallway?on went the TV lights?and into the paneled Judiciary Committee hearing room. There was a hush in the audience and then an excited buzz. Kennedy walked quickly to his seat and rapped the committee into session. With his half-rimmed glasses perched on his nose, he read an opening statement in a sure, powerful voice, but lapsed into the stammering, wandering style that sometimes makes...
...happening. An up market has a different pitch from a down market. But old Wall Street hands vividly remember an exception to that rule. One day 50 years ago next week, recalls David Granger, 76, a senior partner at Granger & Co., a Wall Street brokerage house, "there was a hush over the floor that I've never heard since. It was funereal." Indeed, it was Oct. 29, 1929 -Black Tuesday, the most cataclysmic day of the Great Crash. It was the day prosperity died and the U.S. economy began the decline that culminated in more than ten years...
...Hush puppies," said the knight, and he, too, was cast into the river...
...Andover Hall at the Divinity School. On the second floor is a large chapel, often empty and always serene. The Div School holds weekly services there, but normally when you visit you can sit for hours looking at the stained glass and organ in a complete hush...