Word: hushing
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WASHINGTON--A hush fell over the MCI Center when Peter Bondra limped off the ice midway through the second period. It seemed the Washington Capitals' perpetual run of injuries had hit a new low at exactly the wrong time...
...talking points" Lewinsky allegedly handed Linda Tripp, asking her to lie in her deposition. Starr hopes to make obstruction the heart of his report to Congress, not only because it is a grave offense. It is a common thread in other parts of his far-flung probe of alleged hush money to Webster Hubbell, the sacking of the White House travel-office staff and the disappearance of Hillary's billing records in a Whitewater-related case...
...former Associate Attorney General who has already spent 18 months in prison. Starr has tried to establish that when Clinton loyalists lined up some $700,000 in contracts for Hubbell in 1994, just after he resigned from the Justice Department and before he was indicted, the payments amounted to hush money. That investigation has also led nowhere, but Starr appears ready to go after Hubbell again, this time on tax charges relating to some of the $700,000. The first time Starr nabbed Hubbell, he hoped that Clinton's crony could lead him up the ladder. Now he knows that...
...Groat had been put on administrative leave in 1993 from his $70,000-a-year job on account of poor performance. After the CIA finally decided to let him go in 1996, prosecutors allege that Groat tried to get the agency to pay him more than $500,000 in hush money to keep him from passing to foreign governments the secrets he remembered. The agency refused to pay and eventually turned over the case...
...here I am, a 21-year-old college student, soon to find himself amidst of end-of-classes parties, reading period parties, hush-hush during-finals parties, post-finals parties, Commencement parties and summer housing "Woohoo, no Senior Tutor to bust our chops, just the cops!" parties. I enjoy my fair share of lively soirees, joking around, chatting it up, listening to music, enjoying the company of strangers. These all qualify me as a reasonably healthy and mildly hedonistic Harvard student. Except that I don't drink. However do I cope...