Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alarmed, Harold Stassen sent down the order: step on the gas. Though he kept mum himself, he was working hard behind the scenes, directing every move, writing or editing most of the speeches. With ten days till election, the outcome was touch...
...gold brick. In Montreal last week it was the atom. Seven smooth swindlers dumped $500,000 worth of atom-bomb stock on scores of gullible Quebeckers. One investor, a Montreal physician, reportedly bit to the tune of $20,000. Since the atom bomb was top secret, the peddlers were mum about the way it was to be commercialized. But their fancy, engraved stock looked mighty pretty. A chunk of "deactivated bomb," a gear or two from an airplane motor, parts of a small lathe were more concrete come-ons. Provincial police, not impressed, arrested two atom-stock sellers. Still...
Britain's Foreign Office, which has always kept a jealous eye on the "gateway to India," remained mum, the War Office referred callers to the India Office, the India Office said: "No importance...
...knew at that moment what he was going to do about the strike and about the threat of a resumed coal strike. For weeks he had done everything he had believed it was possible to do, short of getting sore, tough and militant. But he still kept mum...
...Frankfurt, Army investigators kept mum about the death of a civilian stenographer, whose naked body was found outside an Army captain's quarters, six days after her arrival in Germany...