Word: mumming
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...Badoglio dictatorship was still mum on Beinto Mussulinis whereabouts. But now it urged the controlled Italian press to talk volubly on Benito Mussolini's love life. Practically every paper added details to a tale familiar to gossips: Quite by chance in a Roman swimming pool, Benito Mussonlini met voluptuous curly haired Claretta Petacci, daughter of an obscure but ambitious Roman family...
Fish-fries followed fishing. For dessert there were bowls of Manitoulin blueberries. In the background constantly hovered Royal Canadian Mounted Police, members of the U.S. Army, Secret Service men. The inhabitants of Birch Island Station (three summer cottages, two farm dwellings, one church) kept mum about the Old Fisherman, the warplanes that zoomed...
...successive drawings brought no announcements of lessened absenteeism or production increases. Consolidated is mum on just how much improved attendance...
...Robin Moor, six months before Pearl Harbor. The sinking brought a burning rebuke from Franklin Roosevelt, touched off new verbal skyrockets in the already explosive isolationist-interventionist debate. North Dakota's Senator Nye "guessed" that the British had sunk her-then hastily retracted. For obvious reasons, Germany kept mum...
Weapon to Swing. In the face of this all-out attack, Pan Am's suave President Juan T. Trippe was mum, but not idle. United Air Lines, second largest U.S. domestic line and operator of many an ATC route, had been reported in favor of the new committee. United did not appear at the second session. Then news came that United now favored a policy in which one company "or at the most two or three in different territories" should operate the U.S. share of international airlines...