Word: mum
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...Canadian citizen who was born in Wales and reared in England, I have made major adjustments in my views of the monarchy during the past weeks. The House of Windsor last served a purpose during World War II, when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mum) chose not to escape to the safety of remote Balmoral...
WASHINGTON: Janet Reno is leaving her net in vice-presidential waters ? at least for another 60 days. Republicans are crowing; pundits are buzzing. Al himself has stayed mum, protesting, not too much but rather not at all. TIME Washington correspondent Jef McAllister says that's because there's really nothing to say. "Everyone expected this. Reno needed more time. Her team just went through a shakeup; she's hired new people...
...Lamelle, the wind seems to be whispering election, but septanote pages for December are, unfortunately, mum...
...Kings to knock McDonald's off its perch atop the brutal burger market; it had $32 billion in 1996 sales to No. 2 Burger King's $9 billion. The Big King's true test comes this week, when the 99[cents] deal is expected to end. (The company is mum on the regular price, but a manager in Atlanta predicts $1.99, slightly cheaper than the Big Mac.) By then, the novelty may have worn off. "It tastes good," said Don Newland, sampling one last week in Los Angeles, "but when you come down to it, all these fast-food burgers...
...always very rich, and in latter years she was extravagant on a scale that would have made Marie Antoinette blush. But the crowds were not wrong to suppose that she was one of us--any more than an earlier generation was wrong to feel that the Queen Mum (equally aristocratic and remote in reality from the concerns of us ordinary mortals) really cared, really understood...