Word: hushing
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...they join Nancy Fowler, 43, a former nurse who first saw the visions of Mary and Jesus five years ago. Together they wait and watch and pray. "She is descending," Fowler whispers. Outside, an announcer informs the crowd, "Our blessed Mother is here." Instantly, the chanting drops to a hush...
...CRUNCH OR A MOAN BUT a horrified hush spreading through the crowd that signaled the ghastly instant. On the Astroturf at Giants stadium, Jets defensive lineman Dennis Byrd lay motionless, unable to move his hands or legs. With all the power of his 266 lbs. of hurtling flesh, Byrd had unintentionally rammed his helmeted head into the chest of his 275-lb. teammate Scott Mersereau. The impact crumpled a vertebra in Byrd's neck, crushing part of the underlying spinal cord as well as plunging dagger-like slivers of bone into the soft, vital nerve tissue...
Perhaps not coincidentally, a hush seemed to fall over the campaign last week. Resting up for the final push, Bush took the better part of two days off -- a move that left Clinton's quick-reaction team without much to react to. Both campaigns put new negative ads on the air: Clinton's commercials attacked Bush's poor handling of the economy, while Bush's ads lampooned Clinton's enthusiasm for raising taxes in Arkansas. The race is sure to get nastier: both camps consider this first wave of negative spots to be in the kinder and gentler category...
...condemn in politicians' wives. In political rhetoric, there's always a good guy (good gal?) and a bad one, an image of what the candidate wants to be and an image of what she rejects. But when Hillary Clinton speaks out to define herself in public, she has to hush up for fear of offending someone with her angry slogans. Is this concern for the cookie-bakers of America, or is it our fear of a woman who doesn't "know her place...
...hush settles over the room. The audience is awed...