Word: hushing
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Smoke settled in the crowded rooms, voices cracked, tempers rose, and then, the hush. The first model. Under the hot white lights she seemed put together of plastic, not flesh; skin dead-pale, so thin that when she swallowed her body trembled with the shock, she strutted and twirled as if a newly wound toy, never perspiring, only glistening prettily. Buyers scribbled on programs: nice cut, good lines, but can it be copied easily? Will it go in Passaic? The press looked frantically for trends: everything old? Anything borrowed? How about a trend toward the old and borrowed? Customers clapped...
...that goes inward for emotion, not responsively, because intellect is bad for what I do." Such thoughts always bring her to a helpless "Know what I mean?" And no one ever does. But when she sings, everyone knows exactly what she means; even with a banal song, she can hush a room as if she really had something worth saying...
When the chief of Peking's delegation finally got the floor, a hush came over the hall. He denounced Moscow for not returning "blow for blow" in Cuba, and Tito for having "restored capitalism" in Yugoslavia. "It is extremely grave," he continued, "that at this congress the views of the Chinese Communist Party were attacked directly...
...many Roman Catholic laymen believe will be the next U.S. cardinal. There was a former fisherman (Rufino Cardinal Santos of Manila) and a former count (Ernesto Sena de Oliveira of Portugal). There was Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Communist Poland, who raised a finger to his lips to hush those who were cheering him. There were, in all, 2,700 of them-the spiritual leaders of 500 million people. And in the rear of the procession, carried on a gilded throne, its white silk canopy glistening in the sun. came Pope John XXIII, who turned from side to side...
...condemning the U.S. for discrimination and ordering a U.N. investigation of U.S. racial practices. To head off this vote, the Administration per suades a young Negro Congressman named Cullee Hamilton to propose a joint resolution on Capitol Hill that would apologize to Terrible Terry, grant Goroto $10 million in hush money, and to speed up integration. Subplots sub-subplots whirl around these two resolutions like so many errant satellites; the chapters stretch on and on. In the end, Congress adopts Hamilton's proposal, and the U.N., appeased by the act. turns the Panamanian's resolution...