Word: hushing
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...hush did not last long. The 82nd had come in on the heels of the turbulent 81st, which had quit only the day before. In a final burst of legislative speed, the 81st had passed the $20 billion supplementary military appropriation, the $3.1 billion civilian-defense bill, and the excess-profits tax designed to add $3.3 billion to the Government's revenue. In spending for defense, the 82nd would no doubt continue to follow in the Sist's large footsteps...
Matter of Ideals. Lucien, like most young wrigglers, quickly learns to navigate the muck. With great credit to his reputation, he manages to hush a scandal that might have brought the cabinet down. Soon after, he is in the thick of a provincial election, passing out bribes as easily as breathing. In all this stock jobbery, the newly invented telegraph serves the political and financial turn of the men in power so often that Stendhal sees the instrument as a symbol of corruption...
...Council; it knows that Council is an intelligent and honest body. It would be happy to put its case in Council's hands. But no group can be expected to reach a fair decision after listening to one side of the story for three hours in a closed-door hush-hush kangaroo-court trial...
...attractive and chirrupy. She managed efficiently her impractical husband's finances. Said Rhee in 1941, "When I married a foreign lady, my family was very displeased, but they found out it was a perfect marriage." At parties, however, Rhee has been heard to tell Mrs. Rhee, "Now hush. You have talked enough...
...motorist spotted the wounded policeman and took him to the Conway hospital, 19 miles from Myrtle Beach. There he died. Next day, city, county and state police refused to say a word; but the case was too hot to hush. As newspapers began digging into the story, Myrtle Beach's tourist-conscious resort owners wrung their hands over the threat to their trade...