Word: hushing
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...much a hero in captivity as in battle, he came back to a hero's welcome. In the hush of a hospital ward at Seoul, South Korean President Syngman Rhee decorated him with the Order of Taeguk, the government's highest military award. Old friends-officers and G.I.s who had fought beside him in the first dark days-clasped his hand and pounded his back. When the time came to begin the trip home to his wife, son, daughter and a grateful nation, the general wept softly...
...tried to send them away, but the agents forced their way into his private apartments, and in the scuffle a jittery cop laid the cardinal's forehead open with a gun butt. Finding no fugitives, the police rushed their victim to the hospital and tried to hush up the outrage...
Some of the hush-hush surrounding the book seemed justified. Dr. Kinsey knew, he said, of five other books trying to beat his to the bookstalls; one had been in type for months, with blanks to be filled in with Kinsey's figures as soon as they could be obtained. Besides, the suspenseful buildup was excellent publicity. The publishers (Philadelphia's W. B. Saunders Co.) were counting on a sure bestseller: they had ordered a first printing of 250,000 for the 842-page, $8 tome, were certain that the public was breathless to learn what Kinsey...
...Thornton and Stearns are keeping them locked in the safe. They claim they "must be kept secret for the protection of innocent as well as punishment of those guilty." Yet as long as it is hush-hush, every faculty member of Colorado University is subject to the same treatment Senator Wyatt dished out last March...
...peers and ladies sat, clothed in velvet and miniver, dazzling in their show of decorations won in peace and war. In the nave, the chivalry of empire unrolled like a Bayeux tapestry. Music played, yet over 7,000 subjects, gathered to honor their Queen while worshiping their God, a hush of dedication hung like a prayer...