Word: mumness
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Publicly, State Department officials stayed mum on the leak and tried to shift attention back to American support for the Pakistani-led efforts to negotiate a political settlement for Afghanistan. Privately, however, they were furious. They were worried that the revelation would embarrass the Pakistanis into cracking down on the arms shipments. "Successful covert actions must be kept quiet," snapped one official. "That's why they're covert." Some State Department hands speculated that the leak was designed to highlight the Administration's involvement in a popular cause like Afghanistan, where the Soviet threat is unambiguous...
...prepared to close down the hospital in the name of equality, protesting that the private patients should not receive better food than the public ones. This sincere egalitarian critique is immediately compromised, however, when management allows the three union leaders to attend the catered reception for the Queen Mum...
...from now, mum we shall also...
...Dear Mum...
...skip away. He called us "The Three" (what a card!) and he told us to call him "H" (I think it must stand for huggable!). We spent practically all day larking about in the pool. He couldn 't keep his hands off us, but Mum, I promise, it was good clean fun. He told us his greatest fantasy was to go to a party dressed as a frog, kiss the prettiest girl and tell her he was a prince. Well, Mum, I've kissed a lot of frogs in my time, but now I've pecked...