Word: mum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there appeared so far no clinching sign that the enemy was in general retreat or that his morale had cracked. He still counterattacked, resisted fiercely, took back several nameless ridges. He had plenty of ammo. For days his own radio kept mum about the Inchon landing. U.N. planes dropped 3,000,000 leaflets, breaking the news and calling on him to surrender or die. At week's end his choice was still death, not surrender...
...complained Clarke's daughter at a meeting of Uttoxeter townsfolk soon after, "was thrown in the street in the front of the very place where Mum's ashes were scattered." Five days after his eviction, the castellan himself took more direct action. Under cover of night, with a photographer standing by, he climbed right back in through a window (see cut). "It's good to be back," he announced...
There is plenty of evidence that the bloody-minded professors under the Spasski clock miscalculated the time of day in the U.S. For 36 hours after President Truman's announcement that the U.S. would defend Korea, the Soviet press and officials were mum. Had they expected the U.S. move, they would have instructed Jacob Malik, their U.N. delegate, to take his seat at the Security Council and veto any U.N. action. When the Council convened, Malik was not there, and the U.S. gained the immense advantage of U.N. backing...
...Monmouth, bastard son of Charles II.) Newspaper gossipists spoke well of the Earl's record at Eton, Oxford and in the Royal Navy, observed complacently that "the blood of the Stuarts is to be found in both." But at week's end, Buckingham Palace remained majestically mum. The Earl's only comment: "It's all foolish...
...five years, Communists in East Germany have slyly promised the people that the Oder-Neisse territory would eventually be returned to Germany; Communists in Poland have insisted that the territory would stay with the Poles. Moscow itself kept mum-until last week. To Warsaw journeyed East Germany's Red boss, Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht, to return with a treaty in which the East German government formally ratified the cession of the German territory to Poland...