Word: mum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...said that he had encouraged Wisconsin's McCarthy to press his charges that there are Communists in the State Department, and told him "if one case didn't work out, to bring up another." Many responsible Republicans deplored McCarthy's antics privately, but most stayed publicly mum...
After days of futile inquiries and protests, the British Embassy announced last week that it had obtained Kirton's release. The police, until then mum about the whole affair, finally admitted that the arrests had been made-in an investigation of "a plot to sow confusion and dissension." Next day the federal judge charged with the investigation denounced the plot as a phony, ordered the rest of the suspects freed. Federal Police Chief Arturo Bertollo hurriedly departed for a few weeks' rest in Argentina's beautiful Andean lakes region...
...week's end, both the White House and the State Department were still mum about their plans. It was a considered silence: any plea to the Kremlin born of desperation would be interpreted as a sign of weakness and fright, and a sign of weakness in this uneasy hour might prove an ever-greater risk to peace than an H-bomb...
...years ago Agusti sold his favorite paper, Buenos Aires' evening Noticias Grádficas, to Evita for 6,000,000 pesos (then $1,800,000); he remained courteously mum when only 300,000 pesos of the price was actually paid. This tactful gesture won him entree into the best Peronista circles. In recent weeks Agusti had found that Visca's newsprint squeeze was tightening uncomfortably on his independent journal Córdoba (circ. 20,000). With easy confidence he went to call on Visca at the congressional palace to straighten things...