Word: hushing
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...recent Friday night, a characteristically polyglot buzz filled the air in a Brussels pub. But at once a hush fell over the patrons, interrupted finally by a gale of laughter. Every person in the bar had turned to watch the British comedian Ali G on television. And they got all the jokes...
...Wriede-Morawski's squad pulls through with an outstanding performance, the result will hush the critics and prove the Crimson had the situation under control all along...
AMPUTATED. Transplanted hand of CLINT HALLAM, 50, wily ex-con who lost his original hand in prison, then vied for and received the world's first hand transplant in 1998. He failed to stick with anti-rejection drugs and had the extremity removed in hush-hush surgery in London. The hand has been sent to doctors in France for examination...
Where I come from, they call that hush money. But just after New Year's Day, Stanford told me last week, a reporter from the Enquirer came to her L.A. home offering "up to a million" in exchange for her story. She says she declined. But as Stanford notes, there are plenty of disgruntled former Rainbow staff members around who "hate Jesse and want to destroy him" so much they didn't need cash as an incentive to spill what they knew. It was Jackson, in his arrogance, who provided them with the squalid tale that may bring him down...
Here, in the hush of the imagination, is where Rowling works her magic. Listen to her readers; listen to the children...