Word: hushing
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...funereal hush fell over West Germany's air waves one day last week. Broadcasting stations all over the land canceled all light entertainment to stand by for news of a great ship in distress far out in the stormy Atlantic. As hundreds of Germans flocked to their churches to pray, some ten vessels of half a dozen nations fanned out into the stormy sea, and a dozen aircraft joined the search. It was no ordinary ship, buttressed with armor plate, throbbing with power and bristling with the safety devices of a modern age, that faced the furies of Hurricane...
...Patrick Air Force Base. Beyond the standard communiqué, "A missile has been fired," newsmen got not a shred of official information on the tests. As late as last week, not even last June's abortive Atlas launching had been confirmed, though newsmen have long known many hush-hush details of its performance...
...Campbell could match him: "Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone." Or, "When you were a little boy, someone should have said 'Hush' just once...
Cameras began rolling stealthily this week on the most elaborately furtive TV production of the season: the first commercial for the Ford Motor Co.'s new medium-priced car, the Edsel. To keep the car's looks hush-hush until the big unveiling Aug. 27, the ad agency hired Hollywood's Cascade Pictures, which makes special movies for the Atomic Energy Commission and the guided-missile program. Said a studio spokesman: "We're using all the same precautions that we take for AEC films." Five shrouded Edsels were whisked across the country by van from Mahwah...
...high drama a breathless hush pervades the air of Poussin's painting. The artist's delight was in the spacious landscape, towering Alban hills, the pleasant villa under blue skies and the rich glitter of jewels and armor. The painting keys perfectly to Poussin's own view of himself: "My natural disposition forces me to seek and cherish orderly things, avoiding confusion which is as contrary to my nature as is light to obscure gloom...