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hush and followed
As it reached its target and dived, the sound of the propulsion unit spluttering and cutting out, followed by an eerie hush before impact, was quite terrifying, though the silence was also a warning to seek shelter ( later V-1s were corrected to have the originally-intended power dive ).

hush and was
" The burglary team was being paid hush money for their silence and Dean stated: " That's the most troublesome post-thing, because Bob is involved in that ; John is involved in that ; I am involved in that ; Mitchell is involved in that.
In 1933, he was charged with demanding money with menace and attempted extortion after writing to the King asking for hush money.
Jordan's motives for involvement in the case are unknown ; however, in his book, Cutler concludes that “ There is ample evidence that Mrs. Stanford was poisoned, that she was given good care, and that Jordan went over there to hush it up .” Mrs. Stanford had long had a difficult relationship with Jordan ; at the time of her death, she was president of the university's board of trustees and was reportedly planning to remove him from his position.
The yellow press also blamed the minister of war, for keeping the arrest a secret, in the hope of being able to hush up the affair ; he was said to be in league with " the Jews ".
And when, the next day, Woodward — this is probably Sunday or maybe Monday, because the burglary was Saturday morning early — called the number and asked to speak to Mr. Hunt, and the operator said, ‘ Well, he's not here now ; he's over at ,’ such-and-such a place, gave him another number, and Woodward called him up, and Hunt answered the phone, and Woodward said, ‘ We want to know why your name was in the address book of the Watergate burglars .’ And there is this long, deathly hush, and Hunt said, ‘ Oh my God !’ and hung up.
One member of the coup plotters that escaped arrest requested assistance from the CIA, and was paid $ 35, 000, so " The CIA did, in fact, pay " hush " money to those directly responsible for the Schneider assassination -- and then covered up that secret payment for thirty years.
He was actually at Carey ’ s cabin to extort hush money from him.
When it was discovered that the trust had paid hush money to a mistress of Hugh's, Joy's lawyer alleged that Hugh had planned to divorce Joy, and that the trust was created to deprive her of her rightful assets.
LaRue was known as the " bagman " because he delivered more than $ 300, 000 in cash (" hush money ") to the conspirators and their attorneys to keep participants of the Watergate burglary quiet.
At her first word there was a profound hush.
Commentators questioned the legality of these payments and charged that Jackson was paying her “ hush money ”.< ref >
When Muir asked about the origin of the name, he was told that farmers threw hush puppies at the hounds to " quiet their barking dogs.
During antebellum America, a hush harbor was a place where slaves would gather in secret to practice religious traditions.
Slave owners felt anyone old enough to partake in the hush harbors was old enough to suffer the consequences.
The possibility of obtaining freedom while growing closer to God and each other was enough motivation to continue on with the hush harbors, even though the stakes were high.
The Guardian ’ s Office was preoccupied for the next year with attempts to hush up the scandal, even going to the lengths of kidnapping Meisner and holding him incommunicado to prevent him from testifying.
Cavaignac refused to draw this inference — too honest to hush up Henry's forgery, he was too obstinate to retract his speech of July 7.

hush and tense
The effect he produces is a classic hush, tense and tragic, a constant conflict so held in check that a kind of beautiful spareness results.

hush and .
-- hush.
A Pratt & Whitney F100 turbofan engine for the F-15 Eagle being tested in the hush house at Florida Air National Guard base.
* Creole and Southern foods such as hush puppies, okra patties, rice and beans, or sauteed kale or collards, if not cooked with the traditional pork fat or meat stock.
The hush deepened.
A hush falls.
Nomi wants to prosecute Carver, but Zack tells her the Stardust will give Molly hush money instead ; their primary interest is to protect their high-profile celebrity client, not to seek justice.
Then, when the signal to proceed is given, bands begin to play the traditional Toc de Castells music as a hush comes over spectators of the event.
The Soviets tried to hush things up, but details leaked out to the West in 1980 when the German newspaper Bild Zeitung carried a story about the accident.
In a 1972 interview by Ileana Maramag, Antonio Rocha related that his ancestor would take siesta in the house that he had built and that his Sikh watchman would hush any noisy passers-by.
In 2004, Seattle replaced its " Transit Tunnel " fleet with diesel-electric hybrid buses, which operate similarly to hybrid cars outside the tunnel and in a low-noise, low-emissions " hush mode " ( in which the diesel engine operates but does not exceed idle speed ) when underground.
The sibilant postalveolars ( i. e. fricatives and affricates ) are sometimes called " hush consonants " because they include the sound of English Shhh!
Puppeteers were willing to pay large sums of hush money in order to suppress even trivial details about their homeworld.
Tarar hush ar gian-buddhi taxae zanu ex zon arox zonor loge ruhani bhaīitta bebohar taxe.
He admitted supervising payments of " hush money " to the Watergate burglars, notably E. Howard Hunt, and revealed the existence of Nixon's enemies list.

followed and echoes
It was followed by echoes of archy, recorded August 31, 1954.
The poem moves from a sentimental and romantic evocation of rural life to a brutal work of protest against military conscription and garrison life at the border forts ; then it becomes an extended outlaw ballad of the life of a violent knife-fighting gaucho matrero ; then it becomes a story of captivity among the Indians, followed finally by bringing its protagonist face-to-face with a series of human echoes of his past.
* ocasa. org: An archaeological study of chirped echo from the Mayan pyramid of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza, with mp3 files of a quetzal and of two Quetzal bird chirps ( recorded in a rain forest ) followed by two chirped echoes stimulated by a handclaps at the pyramid "
The first half consists of a series of startling gestures that begin with large, loud chords ( f energetico ) in the higher registers followed by echoes progressively lower, ending deep in the bass in a series of single notes played pp. The second half rushes to a great climax.
Fourth, that in these celebrations the liturgical books approved by the Roman Rite are followed, ' with the exception of the explicit concessions from the Holy See ' ( always with unleavened bread ), moving the rite of peace before the consecration, communion under both species, brief admonitions and echoes and, finally, a new way for the distribution of Communion: ' Regarding the distribution of Holy Communion under the two species, the neocatechumens receive standing, remaining at their place.

followed and Matsuo
* Travels along the path Matsuo Bashō followed for Oku no Hosomichi.
Haikai was the linked verse practice followed and elevated by Matsuo Bashō and others until the Meiji period ( 1867 – 1912 ).

followed and was
He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.
When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.
He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.
It was a trick they used to try and conceal their identity when they followed trucks to check their speed.
We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.
During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.
Blenheim was followed in rapid succession by Ramillies And The Union With Scotland and by The Peace And The Protestant Succession, the three forming together a detailed picture of England under Queen Anne.
Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.
He was seldom an unmethodical critic, and his reviews generally followed a systematic pattern: a description of what the work contained, a treatment of the things that had especially interested him in it, and, wherever possible, a balancing of whatever artistic merits and faults he might have found.
The fourth name was ( John ) Milton of Christ's College, followed by ( Richard ) Manningham of Peterhouse, who matriculated 16 October 1624.
The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948 was followed immediately by the conclusion of the Brussels Treaty, a 50-year alliance among Britain, France and the Benelux countries.
Alex entered first and was followed by the doctor who, for all his care, manifested a perceptible bulge on his left side where the hen was cradled.
This resulted in an improved appearance, but was followed by an increase in printing cost that necessitated the institution of major economies to keep within the total of allocated funds.
Upon return of the file to the local board, petitioner was again ordered to report for induction and this prosecution followed his failure to do so.
He was closely followed by the Ohio and Indiana troops -- thus the old bridge has another distinction ; ;
Now did Welch truly become the man of the hour, and everything that followed in the procedure of Justice was a new triumph for him.
This was followed by a comprehensive series of observations of the 1.25-cm emission of the moon over three lunar cycles by Piddington and Minnett ( 1949 ).
A mild electrical shock served as a conditioned stimulus and was followed by feeding.
There followed a long and sometimes bitter discussion of the feasibility of elections for the fall of 1957, in which it appears that the Minister of the Interior took the most pessimistic view and that the Istiqlal was something less than enthusiastic.
Codification was followed in all countries by a growing amount of legislation, some changing and adjusting the older law, much dealing with entirely new situations.
Revenue Ruling 54-17 provides that if the corporation against which a tax was assessed has since been liquidated by merger with a successor corporation, a claim for refund should be filed by the successor in the name and on behalf of the corporation which paid the tax, followed by the name of the successor corporation.

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