Word: mum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other newspapers were significantly mum on the matter, and the City was horrified at such bold Government interference with private enterprise. But uncompromising Vegetarian Cripps said coldly: "Inefficiency in management is as great a breach of duty to the country as absenteeism amongst the workers. The country cannot afford to and would not tolerate the waste of labor either by absenteeism or through bad direction or management...
This time, caught in a college prank, and an unsuccessful one at that, Editor Coghlan was mum...
Since then there has been what the M.E.W. calls "a steady trickle" of blockade runners reaching Europe with Jap-looted supplies from the Far East to trade for German machines and manufactured goods. The M.E.W. is worried, the Admiralty mum, about how successful blockade busters have been; one estimate puts the number of ships...
...down the flag of Vichy's Légion Française des Anciens Combattants. One escaped, but rejoined his comrades when he learned that they had been caught. The four were grilled for a week for the names of their supposedly adult leaders. But the children kept mum. In the end they were turned over to military authorities after a gendarme refused to handcuff them. ("I cannot do that to loyal Frenchmen...
...later the Western Defense Command announced that the trailing plane that clipped the tail assembly was an army bomber. About all other details it was mum. Airline officials and pilots had cause to say: "I told you so." Long & loud have been their complaints about Ferry Command pilots who hop on & off the airlines' beam without reporting positions to traffic controls. One pilot reported last week he had to pull up the nose so fast to avoid hitting an army plane that he almost threw his passengers through the floor. The Army and CAA immediately launched an investigation: this...