So lovely, and what a hush and lulling contrast to the usual hustle and bustle.
A pattern is emerging from the Congressional investigation into Blackwater: the state department urging the company to pay what amounts to hush money to victims' families while facilitating the return of contractors involved in deadly incidents for which not a single one has faced prosecution.
But he remains so hush-hush on what we really want to know, he's The Man Who Wasn't There.
It's been a fraught month in Emmerdale, what with Amy's hush-hush pregnancy and improbable lovebirds Charity and Jai staggering across the storylines like drunks brawling on a petrol station forecourt.
It was all very hush-hush, and what, if anything, China had in mind was a mystery.
It whispered, hushed, what Thoreau would later broadcast: "We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live.
And they culminate in what Mrs. Chess says: "Hush, children!
It was instead simply a batsman who had been given out, the protocol of respectful hush during what is one of sport's more poignant moments – a miniature sporting death – wholly abandoned.
THE United States government has been trying for almost a decade to hush up what it did to Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen whose story of mistaken identity, abduction and abuse was one of the low points in the C.I.A.'s post 9/11 "war on terror".
Since these discretionary funds are relatively small and act as a kind of governmental lubricant, or what Mr. Yassky described as hush money, it is not surprising, analysts say, that the mayor's side of City Hall never worried much about how council members spent them.
