Word: mumming
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...wine list is shorter than the menu and what-is-to-be expected in price; ranging from $4.25 for Almaden Granache Rose to $16.50 for Mum's Cordon Rouge Brut...
...Harold Lee who organized and ran the church's vast and efficient welfare system from 1937 to 1959. He now wants to expand the scope of Mormon welfare to include more rehabilitation programs for alcoholics, drug abusers and ex-convicts. The church remains tightly mum about most expenditures, but one sign of prosperity is a new 30-story, $30 million world headquarters recently erected behind the temple. By Mormon policy, all buildings are paid for as they are built...
...statement was his wife Eunice's income from a trust fund that is estimated to amount to several million dollars. Their five children also have trust funds. Were these included, Shriver would emerge as the richest of the candidates. He was following the Kennedy practice of keeping mum about the size of the family fortune...
...also stayed mum on a revelation about the now famous antitrust compromise that allowed it to hold on to Hartford Fire Insurance in return for selling all or part of six other companies. In fact, the Wall Street Journal revealed last week that ITT will not have to sell all of ITT Levitt & Sons. Several weeks after Justice Department officials outlined the terms of the antitrust compromise to the conglomerate's officers, ITT was allowed to buy one of Levitt's fast-growing subsidiaries. The transaction was not reported in any of ITT's financial documents...
...weak at the end of an intimacy...She's decided to clear the decks, to leave the job she has despised for so long...She's also saying no to Bob. She says. 'I've had all this fitting in and shutting up and making do, like my old Mum.' She knows something is dreadfully wrong with the way her parents live, and she doesn't want to live the life her mother had. She deliberately votes for nothing. She tells him when they are breaking up. "There has to be a time when nothing is better than anything.' Nothing...