Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There's a big hush over the crowd as number 11 comes back down. She smiles to her sister cheering in the stands...
...chorus line. The girls are mostly hefty. The boys tend toward skinny. Plain faces, remarkably ordinary. Bopping and hopping onstage, they maintain a wary reserve off-hours. Their English is lilting, halting, and political questions are turned aside for fear of reprisals back home. Five minutes before curtain, a hush falls over the backstage. They gather for a nightly ritual, heads bent in prayer. Soft voices rise and fall in a Zulu chant. In the corridor, band members stop short and bow their heads. The doorman, a flush-cheeked Irishman, respectfully removes his cap. "I've never seen this kind...
...otherwise undistinguished office building at 1025 Connecticut Avenue, an ordinary suite has been packed with highly classified documents and "tempest- tested" computers that give off no electronic emanations that spies could pick up. A new hush-hush CIA facility? No, just a room in which lawyers for Oliver North and his fellow defendants can examine Government documents that they might need during the forthcoming Iran-contra conspiracy trial...
...shortened list of Nixon's "high crimes and misdemeanors," taken from the Articles of Impeachment prepared by the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, includes: making false statements to investigators, withholding evidence, willfully disobeying subpoenas, approving the payment of substantial sums of "hush money" to those who might implicate him, using the CIA, FBI, IRS and other federal agencies to discredit those who opposed him politically, using his power as president to cover his crimes and block investigations and directly lying to the American people...
Then came the Bakker mess, first the revelation of the PTL leader's adultery and then of his hush-money payments and mismanagement. The avenging angel took wing again. Swaggart passed word to denominational leaders of an impending Charlotte Observer report on the hush money and pressed for a cleanup. He declared the scandal to be a "cancer that needs to be excised from the body of Christ...