Word: hushing
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...resurgence of syphilis is partly due to a remnant of the traditional hush-hush attitude toward venereal diseases. Only 5% to 10% of today's youngsters learn anything about VD from their parents, and many learn little more in school...
...that, at the stroke of 12, when a solemn three-minute hush was officially decreed in West Berlin, the city rocked instead to a deafening cacophony. East German loudspeakers responded with Communist marching songs. The klaxonfest might have gone on for hours but for the arrival of a carrot-topped youth clutching an eight-foot crucifix inscribed in white letters: Wir Klagen An [We Accuse]. With a bellow that brought half a dozen other young Berliners to his side, the lad, a 20-year-old factory worker named Dieter Bielig, raced to the Wall and brandished the cross...
...Hush, little baby...
...that unwelcome intercessor in these parts, whose subtle liquid motions bring discomfiture and weight depressing on our hearts. O, to be witness and delighted benefactor of efficient snow removal would elicit nightingale-like our most heartiest approval. Banish then the ibis of the wood, return the hush; banish then the offal of the slopping through the slush...
...Lion Sleeps Tonight (The Tokens; RCA Victor). A hit comprehensible only to the darkling adolescent ear. One of the nation's top singles, evolved partly from a South African chant, it warns in its insistent, dronelike way of a lion lurking near the village-but "Hush, my darling / Don't fear, my darling / The lion sleeps tonight." What Variety calls, with more truth than poetry, "a sleeper...