Word: hushing
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...were always within a few yards of President Johnson. De Gaulle had ten guards of his own, and 4,324 servicemen and cops lined the route. With the events of the past few days, no one who watched that march could help fearing that another shot might break the hush. Indeed, there had been dozens of threatening phone calls, but there were no real scares...
When coach John Pont moved from Miami, Ohio, to New Haven this fall, Yale's sports publicity office burst into near-rapturous descriptions of the All-New John Pont Offensive System. The System seemed to be something of a hush-hush affair...
...suddenly. A boy of 17 winces in his sleep, begins to wake up, decides not to. Today, he remembers uneasily, is the day when childhood ends and Life begins, the day when he must go to the city to apply for his first job. "Hey Domenico!" his father hollers. "Hush, let him sleep a little more," his mother murmurs. The light goes out. In the darkness slowly the boy opens his big, gentle, worried eyes...
...little tufts of coarse red rag fluttered bravely on the tips of the fetish sticks which that morning had been set up in position around the arena. There was an expectant hush as the spectators, massed on the tiers of rock which formed the amphitheatre, settled in their places...
...American funeral director-that dispenser of authoritative and soothing advice-has suddenly found himself shouted at, reproached and de plored in a clamor that has shattered the hush of the nation's funeral parlors and made many an undertaker sweat uneasily beneath his decent black suit...