Word: shushings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...white shirts and black string ties, and the women, in flowered skirts and modest blouses, sit stiffly on the tiny stage, waiting their turns to line out La donna è mobile or Un bel di. The audiences come to hear music, and they listen with attention, shush fiercely at loud-crowing pub crawlers...
...Vigorous Shush. From Glasgow, Balmoral and elsewhere, the merger plan has brought threats of secession from the church by outraged dominies. Anglicans had little to say, possibly because the addition of elders to an already existing hierarchy is not so shocking to them as the creation of a new hierarchy is to Scots. But privately, Church of England leaders kept their ears trained on Edinburgh. Last week the General Assembly in Edinburgh elected Dr. George F. MacLeod its new moderator despite his known promerger leanings, vigorously shushed a delegate who opposed his election. But whatever sounds of ecumenical accord come...
That night, competing for the President of Mexico Trophy (General Mariles defending), Billy brought forth such a burst of applause from the 10,000 fans that the announcer had to shush them to avoid frightening the horses. Astride Hollandia, the slight-built (5 ft. 10 in., 150 Ibs.) Steinkraus had his hands full, knocked down two of the eight obstacles. "It takes more strength than I've got to handle him," Steinkraus said. But no other rider and horse did any better over the tightly spaced course...
...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...