Word: mum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always existed in a thick conspiratorial atmosphere, but since 1948 it has become heavily defensive. Keeping of member ship records has been forbidden, and in the last four years no party cards have been issued. Party records have been destroyed or hidden, public meetings held to a mini mum; use of the telephone and the mails is sharply restricted...
...many another village of Sardinia, live with banditry as they live with poverty-helplessly, fearfully and always. Orgosolo's bandits often slip into town from their hiding places in the mountains to spend a night with their wives and children, but the villagers who recognize them stay mum, for the bandit code called omerta exacts a heavy penalty from the informer, whether bandit or honest...
Brennan knew how to get around that. He hustled off to Washington, came back with the full transcript of Gilbert's secret testimony, but kept mum on how he got it. Next day the Sun-Times splashed the testimony all over the paper. Gilbert had told the committee that he had made his money while a cop because he "bet on elections . . . bet on football games . . . bet on prizefights . . . [and in fact] I have been a gambler at heart." The Kefauver Committee complained bitterly about the printing of the testimony, but the Sun-Times replied that it had published...
...longer an earnest Communist and now resigned to his punishment (maxi mum: life imprisonment at hard labor). Spy Enbom told the court: "At first I spied for ideological reasons, later only for the money." The wages of his sin were pitifully small. For ten years of espionage, the Russians had paid...
...still a potent force in Pennsylvania politics despite his 89 years, surprised nobody by joining the Taft camp. That raised a new flurry of speculation over the intentions of Grundy's friend, Governor John S. Fine, who controls 32 uncommitted delegates to the Republican Convention, but Fine stayed mum...