Word: hushing
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...hush fell over this assemblage and all that could be heard was the chirping of a bewildered bird--"How well the silvery voice of the warbler with its joyous and innocent twitter blends with the fragrance of the lily of the valley...
Soprano Leontyne Price brought a hush to the crowd with Verdi's Pace, Pace, Mio Dio, and then the guests began to file slowly out of the tent. Like a contented preacher, White House Aide Hamilton Jordan stood at the exit, shaking hands and clasping shoulders. "Begin for President," he said, and the Israeli Premier embraced him. Inside the White House, where there was champagne and dancing, the Marine Band was playing Cole Porter's Well, Did You Evah! which ends with the line "What a swell party this...
...that the meeting with someone whose work you admire inspires. She arrived a half-hour late, coming from a dinner held in her honor and accompanied by a woman described as a dear friend whose wrist the elderly writer clasped throughout the evening, as if for strength. An adulatory hush came over the room as she began to speak in her rambling, stammering, repetitive way. After about twenty minutes of this, I broke in and asked what seems now a rather academic question. I did feel elated at having been able to get something in edgewise, but it turned...
This past summer the National Educational Association (NEA) pressed for the splitting of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare into a separate Department of Education, a proposal supposedly motivated, if you listen to them, because of their great concern for our nation's children. They were notably hush about the fact that President Carter had promised them such a department, with a secretary most likely from among their own ranks, in return for their first endorsement of a presidential candidate in their history. And when you're talking about an organization numbering almost two-and-one-half million teachers...
...look in the closet for your glove. Down past the ice skates and the loose checkers, past an errant bathrobe sash and those hush puppies that you hate but have to wear to assembly, past a $100 Monopoly bill, past the "What God Looks Like?" drawings you made for Sunday School, and aaahhhh, there...