Word: hushing
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...bugler stationed at the bottom of Section 46. After five seconds of silence the echo will be taken up by a Harvard bugler ensconced on the topmost rampart of the bowl. When the last faint strain of the echo has been wafted away on the breeze, a one-minute hush will fall over the assembled crowd and a silent tribute paid to those who gave their lives in the Great...
...hush fell upon them as an unobstrusive little man, clothed carelessly in black, took his place at the table and spoke. He had called them together, he said, to discover their opinion on the work he had just completed. They listened delightedly as he read passage after passage. But when Montesquieu glanced up triumphantly they shook their heads. The book would not do, it was truthful, it was clever, it was seditious...
...currency. But by the end of the week he had begun to act. The President received a delegation of southern Congressmen and planters whose demand for 20? cotton had been shunted about Washington for days. They got into the White House only on the promise that they would hush their inflation talk and stick to cotton. Day after their visit the President announced that the Agricultural Adjustment Administration would lend planters 10? per Ib. on unsold cotton, provided they agreed to reduce their 1934 crop 40%, their 1935 crop 25%. That was 1? per Ib. above the spot market price...
...attempted to dodge the issue by refusing to talk about it, and on the other, has deprecated the use of the striking right where it has been exercised. But now in the case of the coal codes, the miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia have split away from the hush-hush guidance of John Lewis and have by militant action forced the question squarely before Washington. "Are unions going to be recognized...
...precarious hush of the truce between Japan and the Nanking Government (TIME, June 5), a small, discordant clamor was heard last week far to the north in Chahar Province. It was the private war of "Christian General" Feng Yuhsiang, ostensibly to drive the Japanese single-handed out of China's "lost provinces...