Word: mum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans, concentrating on distant battlefields in Russia, Africa and the Western Atlantic, kept mum about their backyard troubles, but the Swedes, who do a land-office business with Hitler, grew vociferous. Press and radio accused a Soviet submarine of torpedoing one ship in Swedish territorial waters and pointed to Russia as the logical source of Baltic raiders. The U.S.S.R. denied...
...Elizabeth class, had been seriously damaged by the Italian Navy. More than that, said Rome, the Valiant was still in dry dock after six months of repairs and the Queen Elizabeth "will require some time before repairs are completed." Knowing that the Italians were fishing for news, Britain kept mum...
...Censor Byron Price congratulated the press on its "magnificent" performance in keeping mum about the six-day Washington visit of Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov—"news of very high importance . . . known to hundreds of newspapermen and broadcasters." (Only paper that talked was the tabloid Philadelphia News, which gossiped: "The talk in official Russian circles here is that Premier V. M. Molotov of Soviet Russia is in this country on a secret mission of vast importance.") Actually, while photographers waited at the White House to catch the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, Molotov strolled slowly past them and not a camera clicked...
...Juan's bars went rummy gossip. In Washington, testy Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes, who arranged the transfer, said: "A man has as much right to select his own naval aide as he does to select his own wife." Governor Tugwell, in Washington also last week, was mum...
...Murray and I murdered the woman alone," he shouted. "This was an act I am willing to pay for and I know I will burn. . . ." Cullen, the unsuccessful thief, sat mum throughout the trial. His life too was at stake, but his show of emotion was limited: a couple of times he sneezed a little...