Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Result. On the Burma front, a thoughtful soldier wrote to his mother in England: "Don't worry about me, mum. I'll keep my head down." Later hit by fly ing shrapnel, he wrote again: "In the future I'll keep both ends down...
...Conferred with Ambassador to Britain John G. Winant and Ambassador to Russia Averell Harriman, remained firmly mum about both conferences...
...Major Walker M. Mahurin, shot down over Europe the day of his 21st victory, returned to England-safe, sound, mum on how he escaped...
...startling idea-that magnetism, like electricity, flows in currents and can decompose water (TIME, Jan. 24). U.S. physicists kept politely mum. Their skeptical silence annoyed Dr. Felix Ehrenhaft of Manhattan. Recently, before the American Physical Society at Pittsburgh, he enunciated his theory again...
...employes were on strike, called out by C.I.O.'s Retail Employes Union.* The union claimed that 4,500 of the 5,500 union-eligible employes had walked out. Nonstriking employes going through picket lines were given the "Chicago cheer" by strikers (see cut). Ward's was mum, but stricken. A.F. of L. teamsters, in sympathy with the strikers, refused to pick up or deliver to the stores. The U.S. Post Office withdrew 30 idling mail clerks who normally handle Ward's outgoing mail-order business, second biggest in the U.S. (Net mail-order sales last year...