Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that gray, haggard, jowly face appeared on the television screens of an avidly watching nation and announced the almost inevitable and yet unbelievable decision to resign. After two years of trying to escape the Watergate scandal-the bungled burglary at Democratic headquarters, and then the coverup, the lies, the hush money, the demands upon subordinates to "stonewall"-Nixon finally invoked the language of Theodore Roosevelt to describe himself as "the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs. . ." Next day, the official day of resignation, he was near tears...
...expectant hush. Carr swears that Bombeck had known nothing about the cherries stunt. Unfazed, however, she stepped to the microphone and said, "Well, I hate to think what would be going on in here if we were promoting my last book...
Today Herrnstein says "There is a hush in the room when I talk about race related issues, but I'm not as aware of students' anger in this matter as in the past. In fact, one of the biggest compliments I get is on how I handle those issues. Students appreciate that I tackle the controversies." But he adds that he still stands behind his conclusions and that the article was blown out of proportion...
...limits on what is to be attempted, consider whether the means available match those required, carefully weigh potential benefits against likely costs. All that is much easier to achieve when a proposal is subject to wide debate than when, even inside the Government, it can be discussed only under hush-hush conditions by a tightly limited group of officials. Sloppy planning too often slips by in those circumstances. An inordinate number of covert operations seem in hindsight either to have been doomed to failure, like the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, or to have inherent drawbacks that far outweigh...
...Army engineers last year, during the joint U.S.-Honduran military exercise known as Big Pine II. Another helpful installation for the F.D.N. is a sophisticated training base 90 miles southwest of Tegucigalpa, originally built by the U.S. The contras have also made use of Tiger Island, a hush-hush radar station in the Gulf of Fonseca that is tightly guarded by a contingent of about 150 U.S. Marines...