Word: hushing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...strong arm of dictatorship had reached from one hemisphere to the other. But so low had the intellectual level of Communism fallen that there was not left an orthodox or heterodox Marxist capable of phrasing for murdered Comrade Trotsky 13 words comparable to those he spoke into the hush that followed Lenin's death: "Lenin is dead. The words are like great rocks falling into...
...honeypot for newsbees, an inspiration to fictioneers, the Military Intelligence Division collects, analyzes and supplies military information to the rest of the Army. The hush-hush province of ciphers, codes, spies and their works is all G-2's: bald, husky Brigadier General Sherman Miles, whose ancestry and career are as glamorous as any in the Army. His father was the late Lieut. General Nelson A. Miles, his grandfather William Tecumseh Sherman. In the first months of World War I he was military observer with the Russian armies, later served as a military intelligence officer with...
...debate that has occupied these last two days," declared Chamber Speaker Edouard Herriot amid an eager hush, "has enabled us to dissipate certain legends and establish the truth-the comforting truth. It has permitted the Premier to explain his course to us confidentially, in a manner that was simple and familiar and by that fact infinitely moving. It has finally permitted Parliament to play its full role. ... In two days there has been confirmed in decisive fashion our national unanimity which is inalienable because it is founded on liberty and the passionate love of country." The whole House rose...
Claiming that the original purpose of the club system has been "smothered and overlooked by a preoccupation with hush hush ritual by inter-club competitive prestige, by a senseless struggle for individual solvency," the Daily Princetonian launched an attack on the club election system, last Wednesday, by expressing disapproval with the changes in bickering instituted by a revision committee of club representatives...
...Blitzkrieg of the elements. What gave it additional martial atmosphere was that nowadays British weather is a military secret. The censor-fearing London newspapers carried no weather news at all in a spell of such weather as had not been seen in the Isles for 46 years. Hush-hushed was the fact that the British capital was covered with snow, that snowdrifts twelve feet high were piled up on the Dover-Folkestone Road, that the Scottish lochs were frozen solid, that all of Britain shivered. The London Daily Mail gleefully published a cold-wave poem which, it said, had been...