Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Something Wrong." As long as he could, School Superintendent Alexander J. Stoddard kept mum. The issue was a "family matter," he insisted, and not one for public debate. To his surprise, parents of public-school pupils also began to write letters to newspapers. In a special poll, the Bulletin found that a thumping majority of them wanted to abolish the mass-promotion system. Said the 1,000 members of the Big Four Fathers' Association: "We've felt for a long time there was something wrong with the school system. Now, someone has put his finger...
Where did the girls come in? All the accused, except the girls, kept mum. Elliott had been through newspaper probes before. He said nothing. But Secretary Krug, a Cabinet member now, had to say something. He admitted that he had attended a few of Meyer's parties. But he denied having attended at least three for which Meyer had him listed on his expense sheet. Meyer, said Krug wrathfully, was padding the account at his expense...
...American Iron and Steel Institute estimated that a price rise of $6 to $7 a ton in steel would mean a direct increase of $10.50 to $12.25 in the cost of producing the average automobile. At week's end, automakers and other hard-goods manufacturers were still mum on any price rises. But in most of these lines, competition alone was not great enough to force them to hold the line. The only encouraging sign came from Armco's fabricating subsidiary, Sheffield Steel Corp. (bolts, wire, nails, etc.). Despite parent Armco's action, Sheffield, which makes...
Hailstones. The scientists, for the most part, kept mum. Some fumbled around with the idea of solar reflections, meteor crystals, ice crystals, hailstones. No astronomer had seen anything unusual. No weather plane or radar screen had picked up any astral bodies. Air Forces spokesmen denied that they had experimental planes resembling the saucers seen in the Northwest or anywhere else...
...watched it all, said nothing. The State Department likewise kept mum...