Word: hushing
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This is a dead city, a battlefield where vultures circle overhead and the smell of panic is stronger than the stench of the unswept, palm-fringed boulevards. The shops are barred, the restaurants deserted. Hour after hour, day and night, the tomblike hush is broken only by the distant crump of exploding mortar shells, the whoom of bazookas, the crack of anti-aircraft cannon, and the short, chattering bursts of machine guns...
Providing linguistic-historical comments on the hush-hush Anglo-Saxon words which occur with distinct regulari- ty in Cancer will be Morton Bloomfield, professor of English. The minister who will participate is Robert W. Haney '56, author of Comstockery in America, who is associated with the First Unitarian Church of Boston...
...Glozer: Children's Concert (Wonderland). With the aid of some infectiously gay patter and a sunny, open voice, Singer Glazer plays on a squealing suburban audience as expertly as he strums on the guitar. Thirteen selections, including Hush, Little Baby, Jimmie Crack Corn, Skip...
Despite Britain's reluctance, the dream of union has survived. And last week Britain finally succumbed to its lure. In a House of Commons so packed that even the chamber gangways were stuffed with squatting M.P.s, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan waited for a tense, expectant hush. Then he announced that Great Britain had finally decided to apply to join the Common Market, the three-year-old and amazingly successful economic union of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands...
...followed its flight. On television sets from Canaveral to California they watched while its widening vapor trail was twisted into antic patterns by winds aloft. They listened while the calm, businesslike voice of the astronaut reported by radio as he progressed along his predetermined path. Schoolrooms knew an unaccustomed hush as students concentrated on Shepard's dangerous trip. Traffic thinned in thousands of cities as drivers pulled to the curb and tuned their radios. In Indianapolis, a judge halted courtroom proceedings so that all hands could watch a TV set that had been picked up by police as part...