Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Fact. There was no immediate explanation why the official news was held up. Downing Street was mum; the White House was coy and confused. Best guess was that Joe Stalin had held up the joint announcement either because: 1) his Ukrainian armies still faced a small segment of determined Nazis in Moravia, or 2) he was not yet ready to set off Russia's victory celebration. Finally, from London, came word that the official announcement would come the following day. Thus, for the history books, May 8, 1945, became...
...when auto production will start, WPBoss Krug kept mum. But he flatly denied reports that the industry has already been given the go-ahead to turn out 250,000 cars in the fourth quarter of this year. Actually, automen knew as well as Krug that there would be no signal given for auto production until...
...visit from Memphis' owlish Democratic Boss Ed Crump. Leaving the White House, Ed Crump was mum. Scuttlebutt had it that he had been summoned in an effort to get him to stop Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, the Senate's premier spoilsman, from trying to wreck...
Pondering this revolutionary theory, and well aware that Dr. Ehrenhaft is a cantankerous man in an argument, his fellow physicists kept skeptically mum...
...Forces, which sent a balloon expert, Major J. F. Bolgiano, west to Montana, were not alone in their speculation. Residents of Kalispell, who kept mum until week's end at the Government's request, were engaged in fascinated discussion about what odd people the Japanese...