Word: hushing
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...traveling with Dole, waited a few hours after one run-on speech and then pulled Dole aside in a relaxed moment. "When you've told the story of Russell," said Bennett, "the speech is over. That's it." At the next event, Dole brought the room to a hush with the story of his recovery; he was clearly "aching" to go on, recalls Bennett, but closed quickly with "God bless America...
...make America the great and good country we grew up in," he says with vibrato in his hoarse and weary voice. Buchanan has mastered the actor's trick of reciting the same lines but giving them a different emphasis each night. When he finishes, there is a collective hush before the audience rises to its feet in applause. Buchanan inclines his head to the orchestra seats and the balcony, but strides off, head down, without taking a curtain call. Great actors do not have to believe what they say, but only seem to. Great politicians believe what they...
Professor Seamus Heaney made his first public appearance since winning the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature to read five poems in the candlelit hush of Memorial Church last night, as part of a commemorative event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Harvard University Art Museums...
...brawl erupted at the D.U. final club between a football recruit and club members....The subsequent hush-up suggests that College officials prefer minimizing publicity to exacting appropriate punishments from blameworthy students....This sort of gang assault should be prosecuted as a serious crime....We recommend two courses of action for the University: 1) a careful examination of the recruiting program, since it is clear that football team members can no longer take care of their own and 2) an end to the persistent coddling of students who commit serious crimes...
...unfolding through the eyes and deeds of three men in their early 40s who have not yet learned that they are out-and-out psychopaths. Pete Bondurant is a former Los Angeles County deputy sheriff who now works for Howard Hughes; Pete's duties include overseeing the staffing of Hush-Hush, a scandal rag Hughes has bought for titillation and political smears, plus procuring drugs for and keeping process servers away from his billionaire boss. One day Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa, who is being hounded by the Senate's McClellan committee and chief counsel Robert Kennedy, calls to offer Pete...