Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having kept his voice to a whisper throughout the presidential campaign, Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing finally opened up on politics-not to hail victorious Roman Catholic John Kennedy but to give lavish praise to the Quaker loser. Said the Cardinal: "If I were asked to name the good-will man of 1960, I would unhesitatingly give the accolade to Richard Nixon. During the recent campaign he never exploited the religious or any other issue that would tend to divide the American people. When he lost, he was magnificent in defeat...
...Loud Whisper. The Cabinet decision brought a prompt announcement that Ben-Gurion would take a four-week holiday from his job. The Prime Minister's aides whispered loudly enough for everyone to hear that the vacation would be followed by Ben-Gurion's resignation if the Cabinet did not reverse itself. Mapai Party leaders went into a desperate huddle and promised to think of something that would pacify their chief...
...name among long-term investors, the type of stockholder that corporations want. All Wall Street might take a lesson from the biggest U.S. company, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Last week it announced an increase in its dividend (see State of Business) without so much as an advance whisper reaching the Street...
...mink-trimmed wedding gown (designed by Balenciaga and executed in his own Madrid apartment with all the secrecy of a new-car prototype in Detroit) caught on a chair, she came close to tears. Proud and protective in his lieutenant general's uniform, Baudouin leaned over to whisper a soothing word, and soon the royal couple were joking with the burgomaster of Brussels about the 20 papers the bride and groom were called upon to sign...
Combining political savvy and a quick sense of humor, Herbert Claiborne Pell, retired states-man and party manager, is a master at the aside--in a stage whisper. To sit next to him is the only way to catch the whole show. His asides presented a description of the political fever that is apparently catching in the Pell family...