Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scream of its shells passing, hear the report of the gun from the enemy lines, hear the explosion on the shore behind them.) Sometimes the troops see the German guns firing, call on their 105s for counterbattery fire, only to see the U.S. bursts fall far short at maxi mum range. Even 155s sneaked to for ward positions at night have not succeeded in reaching the Germans...
...long. Perhaps their parents' irregular relationship kept them socially isolated. Possibly Argentine newsmen are not alert. But it is no mystery to Papa Diligenti. He planned it that way, even registering the births in different offices or not at all. Midwife Delfino kept her pledge. The household was mum as clams. Forceful Papa Diligenti had made his wishes clear: "Do I want a bunch of maniacs running through my house, bulbs flashing in my babies' faces? I want my children to live normal lives. . . . I don't want to have to visit my own children. . . . Dionne...
Peter kept as mum as a king should, pending his talks with Churchill, Eden and Stettinius, due in London soon. But his aides made sure that newsmen saw the eight-point plan that Peter or Purich, or both, hoped to put across. The four main points: divide Yugoslavia between Tito and Mihailovich; set up a joint headquarters under Allied supervision; tell both factions to stop bickering; put off all political settlements until after the war, when King Peter would submit to a plebiscite before attempting to resume his throne...
...Bennett. Henry Ford kept mum on who will replace Sorensen. Likeliest prospect: plumpish, soft-speaking Ray R. Rausch, 49, Ford director, production boss of the Rouge, and favorite of Harry Bennett. Just how well Rausch will measure up to Sorensen, productionwise, is a question that reconversion will probably answer. But with Sorensen out, there is no one in the empire now-outside of Henry and Henry II, Ford vice president-to challenge the absolute power of the one-time sailor, boxer and Ford bodyguard, Harry Bennett...
...version of the Boston Tea Party the liquidation was conducted along orthodox lines. With great dignity N.W.M.C. held a two-day auction in Boston, sold 23 million Ib. of wool at prices below the cost of homegrown wools. In Salt Lake City, the National Wool Growers Association was grimly mum. In San Antonio, the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association bleated: "The trade is taking these wools in preference to ours...