Word: hushing
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...dagger TV play in Britain, a solemn voice announced to televiewers: "Should you be threatened, ring the secret number Whitehall 5422, give the code number 1785, then the code word 'curtain raiser,' and you will be put straight through to the Prime Minister!" Delighted to hear such hush-hush information, hundreds rushed to their telephones to pass the time of day with Sir Anthony Eden, succeeded only in clogging the Cabinet Office's tie line to 10 Downing Street...
...ordered at the counter, the management is making its big pitch for the tourist with short-order dishes that would have made Brillat-Savarin shudder. Items: Pacific Nightmare, a 95? pie filled with minced chicken and fresh mushrooms; Romeo and Juliette Tenderloin Steakie with watercress ($1.35); and 75? Frenchified "hush puppies," French fried cheese balls with salad...
...feet long, entered the cathedral on the arm of her father. As she knelt before a gold and scarlet priedieu, a fanfare of trumpets announced the arrival of her husband-to-be. Tense and nervous, the two sat side by side in the cathedral sanctuary, listening in a hush to a brief sermon by the Bishop of Monaco. Then, in the simple ritual of an ancient faith, they vowed lifelong fidelity each to the other. Rainier slipped the wedding ring halfway onto Grace's finger, and, like many a bride before her, Grace came to his aid and with...
...nature. Among his favorite areas were the forests near his native Ornans. It was probably there that in the 1860s he painted Forest Pool (see opposite), recently acquired by Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, in which he set down a summer's instant that in breathless hush remains a delight to hunter and nature lover alike...
...Central Intelligence Agency's privileged hush-hush irritates many a Congressman, and Montana's well-meaning Senator Mike Mansfield had little diffi culty in finding 34 co-sponsors last January for his resolution proposing a joint congressional watchdog committee over CIA. Said Mansfield thoughtfully: "If we accept this idea of secrecy for secrecy's sake, we will have no way of knowing whether we have a fine intelligence service or a very poor...