Word: shushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis Crook got to thinking about a contemporary problem. Airplane radios of the day were bothered by high-tension interference from the engine's spark plugs, each of which acted like a miniature radio transmitter. Various attempts had been made to shush the plugs, but none had succeeded well. The professor focused his mind on the problem, dived into his basement workshop and soon had a solution. He scoffs at newspaper stories of how he worked 20 years on his invention. "Pooh," he says. "I didn't work more than 20 minutes...
...jolly German businessman, who did not seem to notice the other passengers' tension, kept telling endless stories about how he had outwitted the Reds. The scared blonde across the aisle tried to shush him, but he kept rambling on. "Why, you can bribe the Russians with cigarettes and schnapps any time. Why, let me tell you about one Russian officer -" His prattle was cut short by a jerk of the train. After more than an hour, we were moving again...
...that he created the "illegal" National Independence Party to oppose the government. True, said Lipinski, adding: "It was obliged to be an illegal party because there is no political freedom in this country. Public meetings of my party were suppressed in violation of the Constitution." The court tried .to shush him. Shouted Lipinski: "I know my rights...
...American who wrote the ad made front pages on two continents. The British Government protested officially. Britons called it an incentive to murder. U.S. Zionists attacked it. Last week, in the midst of other duties, Harry Truman implored U.S. citizens to shush inflammatory Palestine talk of all kinds "in the interests of this country, of world peace, and of humanity." But it might take more than the President of the U.S. to shush Ben Hecht...
When the military toppled Castillo June 4, 1943, Colonel Juan Domingo Peron & friends retained the state of siege, and' improved on it. They reluctantly abandoned it only when public opinion grew too strong to shush...