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Word: mum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only lab animals and that if there were any implications at all for humans, it was not for ordinary fatties but for the grossly obese. Still, Yalow was inundated with a hundred letters asking for help that she clearly could not give. So Yalow has decided, for now, that mum's the word about obesity hormones. Says she: "The story's gone too far already and given a lot of desperate people a very false sense of hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Yalow's Lament | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...Mum's the Word...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Officials Mum on Report That Solzhenitsyn Will Be Commencement Speaker | 5/26/1978 | See Source »

...coming up, he says, in the next few years. We're going on some trips. Daddy deserves his vacations. He says he's really happy because he can keep us happy, and he does. If we want something real bad, we go tell him or mum, and they oblige us almost all the time. That's what Daddy almost always says--that he's glad to oblige my sister...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: How the Two Halves Live | 2/24/1978 | See Source »

...testify and that he feared the evidence would be used against him in a federal case, Hansen refused to testify in court. Circuit Judge Toshimi Sodetani held Hansen in contempt, jailed him for two weeks, then brought him back to the witness stand last week. Again Hansen kept mum, and Prosecutor Cooper, a prominent Los Angeles defense attorney hired by Hawaii to handle the case, had no choice but to move for dismissal. Said Cooper to the court as Hansen was set free and Fasi taken off the hook: "Justice has been thwarted." So, too. may be Ariyoshi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Off the Hook | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

Last year he signed on with a small London record company, accepting an amp and tape recorder as his only advance. For his stage name, he borrowed immodestly from rock 'n' roll's first king and then picked Costello from his mum's side of the family. A couple of singles recorded during his days off led to his only album so far, My Aim Is True. When CBS Records executives came to town last July for their international convention, Costello grabbed his guitar, rushed over to the London Hilton and staged a street-corner audition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: England's Elvis: Gut Emotions | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

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