Word: hushing
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Suddenly a hush came over the crowd, and somebody started playing "Pomp and Circumstance" on the piano. I saw Carroll dashing to some pre-arranged place, and a solemn lad strode up on the stage carrying a little pot. A Pudding pot, I assume. Someone started giving a speech, and I drifted over to check on Miss Baker...
...HUSH-A-PHONE fight has been lost by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. after eight-year court struggle. Bowing to a U.S. Court of Appeals order, FCC reversed its earlier decision and ruled finally that A.T. & T. cannot ban use of "Hush-A-Phone" shields, which slip over speaking end of telephone and permit user to speak without being easily overheard...
...spite of defective eyesight, which had barred him from U.S. military or commercial flying. Cocky and buoyant, he settled in Ciudad Trujillo, flew in and around the Dominican Republic for ten months. And one of the flights, he boasted in indiscreet moments last summer and fall, had been a hush-hush special job. His plane, he said, had taken Scholar Galindez, disguised as a "cancer patient," from the U.S. to the Dominican Republic...
...weeks between the seizure and the Israeli invasion Saud kept a top aide shuttling to Cairo to urge Nasser toward moderation, and sent private word to Eisenhower that he had counsel to give. Former Secretary of the Navy Robert Anderson was dispatched on a hush-hush trip to Riyadh. Baud's counsel: Western intransigence was forcing Nasser into the arms of the Communists. Simultaneously. Saud began a gingerly effort to organize a loose association of Arab leaders which, while not opposing Nasser, still called for restraint. Saud found common cause for unity even with his old Hashemite enemy, King...
...Sardis, helps incite war between Carthage and Sicily, insults the majesty of Rome, and leads his fellow Etruscans to ruin on the bloody field of Himera. In the end he goes alone to his doomed homeland in Etruria, where the famed twelve "sacred cities" stand in an elegiac hush awaiting the final onslaught of Gauls from the north and Romans from the south that will erase the Etruscan language and religion from history...