Word: mumming
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Climate of Uncertainty. Though Lyndon Johnson was keeping mum about his plans, he has already committed himself to several new pieces of legislation that will be costly, such as a 10% to 15% across-the-board hike in social security. The President has hinted that there will be major new legislation in the area of child health, particularly in dentistry; half of all U.S. children under 15 have never been to a dentist...
...perfect-pitch soprano has a crystal clarity and superb diction, and yet it can be as warm and soft as a purr. She does not radiate sensuality, nor is she the pulp of publicity campaigns. She is everybody's tomboy tennis partner and their daughter, their sister, their mum. To grown men, she is a lady; to housewives, the gal next door; to little children, the most huggable aunt of all. She is Christmas carols in the snow, a companion by the fire, a laughing clown at charades, a girl to read poetry to on a cold winter...
...suggested at the time that Julie go to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; she would undoubtedly have been the better actress for it. But Mum ruled that practical experience was best. "We decided," she says, "that a little toughening up as far as the theater world was concerned would be good. So we took her into our act. Let's face it: it didn't hurt the act either. Of course, we weren't always in the same show." One summer at the resort of Blackpool, for instance, "we were on the pier...
...Keeping Mum. Russia's activity is bound to revive the debate about whether the U.S. should go ahead full steam with an anti-missile missile system of its own. More than $2 billion has already been spent to develop such a system built around the Nike-X missile, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff are unanimous in favoring its full deployment. Secretary McNamara, on the other hand, has steadfastly balked at the more than $30 billion that the antiballistic missile system would cost. He has claimed in the past that the program would not be effective without a shelter...
According to standard art-market plots, Millar should have kept mum, sent an unknown agent to the auction and picked up a six-figure painting for a three-figure pittance. But as a public-service scholar and a proper servant of the Crown, he says, his only ethical course was to get the painting properly identified. Besides, as he somewhat testily adds, the Crown collection "already has a great number of Rubenses." Millar sought out Christie's Carritt, diffidently asked: "Isn't that a rather important picture you've got in your sale?" Carritt took a quick...