Word: mum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grecian disaster or Cretan fiasco to swell her shipping losses to the figures of April and May. Nevertheless June was 15% better than the monthly average since the Battle of the Atlantic began in earnest in June 1940. Why, when things were looking up, did the British go mum...
...think the matter out. After a suitable interval you tap on the floor with your foot again, this time crescendo, pick up the phone, and (a) gripping the nose as before: 'I'm sorry, the doctor isn't in at present. Can I take a message, Mum?' or (b) in your own voice: 'Hullo, Jones, about that match on Saturday...
Unlike the British, who talked frankly about air raids on their cities, the Germans have been mum...
...Thriller-Diller E. Phillips Oppenheim got back safely to England from the Riviera, mum about how he did it. ∙∙U.S. Newspaper Correspondent Jay C. Allen, imprisoned at Chaumont by the Nazis for trying to slip into Unoccupied France, was given a mutton-sleeves nightshirt, a French copy of GWTW, hoped to get out this week when his go-day term expires...
...rumor was first breached by the Christian Science Monitor when they ran a story which implied that Roosevelt's presence at the ceremonies was a certainty. As usual the University authorities and those who might be in the know were mum or retreated behind the stone wall of the phrase, "The University has no comment to make...