Word: hushing
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...orchestra surged into the Tannhäuser Bacchanale a hush spread over the backstage throng of greasepainted singers and grimy sceneshifters. The next few minutes would tell the story of Marjorie Lawrence's first comeback in opera. Gesturing from her couch, she smiled triumphantly and sang Venus' lines with a pearly soprano as lucent as ever...
Optimists had hoped Myron Taylor's hush-hush visit to the Vatican last September might persuade the Pope to say a veiled good word for the United Nations. They were disappointed. In his annual Christmas Eve message, Pius XII said: "The Church does not intend to take sides." Some were comforted, however, by the fact that he: 1) condemned states banning "ethics or religion" and "herding men as if they were a mass without a soul"; 2) upheld educational and religious freedom; 3) flayed racial persecution; 4) urged legislation to defend the worker's "rights as a person...
When U.S. and Canadian military authorities complained about prostitution, the British Government investigated, discovered a vicious increase in venereal diseases, decided the subject needed airing. The austere London Times quoted Sir Wilson Jameson, Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health: "Because of an old tradition of hush-hush, the public does not know what it ought to." Health authorities, said he, are handicapped by "this misguided secrecy...
...Bend, Ind., had speeded the job with time-killing machines like the 1 75-foot monster which finishes a cylinder head in 49 seconds v. 300 hours the old way. The go-year-old onetime wagonmakers also produce thousands of pug-nosed military trucks, auto & truck parts, plus some hush-hush military goods...
...factory feeding is as old as U.S. industry, but now is acute. Some war plants are so huge that it would take a worker his entire lunch period just to get to a central cafeteria and more than that to get out the gate; some production jobs are so hush-hush that workers are locked in for their entire shift. Nobody knows how many millions factory feeders gross annually, but it is a big regional business...