Word: hushing
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...Socks off, "Mrs. Parker ordered, and there was an expectant hush while she picked a winner. The losers sulked prettily and than gathered around the winner to inspect her in envy. Metatarsal arches are important to the class, the instructor said, because the participants are taught how to walk well on them. "Of course girls naturally swing more than boys would," Mrs. Parker continued, "because they have a wider base to work...
...brutal and senseless mob attack, besides turning the stomach of even his warm supporters, apparently went beyond the dictator's intentions. He blustered that the opposition's "intellectual guerrillas" were to blame, and threatened to "fight back without quarter." He also moved fast to hush up news of the massacre. By quickly blocking news cables, the government successfully kept the story out of most papers abroad; only travelers' reports, days later, spelled out the ugly truth. The government's censors muzzled the local press...
...jugged as a material witness, with bail set at $5,000 (later halved to the amount that sprang Billy). At week's end, Daniels, his local cabaret entertainer's card lifted, hopped off to Hollywood. Before he left, he was asked about rumors of a $10,000 hush-hush payoff to the cops. Shrugged Billy, who had been knocking down $10,000 a week at a brassy Manhattan nightclub: "I don't have that kind of money...
...march burst from the Folies orchestra, and 20 superb girls dressed as Italian soldiers charged bravely across the stage, each with one breast bared, as cheers rang out and flags waved. In 1918 the first Folies nude appeared. She was "a delicious blonde." Each evening there was a deep hush, followed by a murmur of admiration when she appeared on stage, transported in a flower-decked chariot and clad only in a crown of flowers and a sparkling smile...
Sophia Loren, 21, stands at a statuesque 5 ft. 8 in., and the opulent 140 lbs. between her strawberry blonde hair and her toes is distributed in a symmetrical 38-24-38. When she flounces into Rome's most elegant restaurants, a dramatic hush falls on the room while members of the international set stare at her like hayseeds. Last year, during a personal appearance in Bologna, a mob of males became so impassioned that they tore off her shoes as souvenirs...