Word: shushings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...malnutrition-but the marks that did not show were harder to administer to. The blare of bugles blowing reveille scared the Huklings so that they clutched at nurses in fear. The first sight of soldiers in uniform made them duck; they were so disciplined to silence that the slightest shush from a nurse stopped their crying. The girls shrank from dolls, the boys were frightened by toy cars...
About 10:15 they got to the traffic cases. Two Harvard students wanted to leave. One of them said, "I see now it's not the dollar but the day's work you--" A peremptory shush from the usher silenced...
...with the hearty air of the big boss at the annual company outing, made up for his rival's helicopter by singing second bass in a quartet with three Yale undergraduates at major public appearances. They sang the Whiffenpoof Song, though some of his backers thought he should shush his Yale connections. He pronounced Bowles (Yale '24) the philosopher of leftism, Senator Brien McMahon (Yale LL.B. '27) the spokesman, and Benton (Yale '21) the captive, announced that his campaign was based on "Korea, Communism, confusion and corruption...