hushing-up

Even the deaths of our own people are insignificant and the numbers weren't even published during the war in Iraq until they somehow became so openly known in spite of the hushing-up, that it became impossible even for the MSM to ignore the fact that U.S. military were dying in huge numbers.

What We Can't Conquer, We Buy 2009

Her first glance, however, at the actual theatre of war gave her the impression that matters had advanced beyond the hushing-up stage.

Uneasy Money 1928

He was bent on the hushing-up course lest his Presidency should become synonymous with a great judicial crime; he feared that he might be forced to resign even before his term of office was over, or, at all events, that he might have to abandon all hope of re-election.

With Zola in England Vizetelly, Ernest A 1899

He was against the hushing-up business from the first.

The Mistress of Shenstone 1891

Meanwhile, all copies of the book had been bought up; the important newspapers had readily lent themselves to the suppression of the affair; private wraths had been dealt with by conciliatory lawyers; and in general a far more complete hushing-up had been attained than Ashe had ever imagined possible.

The Marriage of William Ashe Humphry Ward 1885

Such clemency in so young a king was a marvel to all, the chroniclers say, though indeed there could be little question of clemency on James's part in a mutual hushing-up, which was evidently dictated by every circumstance of the time and the only source of mutual safety.

Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862

"The 'hushing-up' system is in sanitary matters about as dangerous as anything can well be" -

Whitehaven News headlines 2010

Etc etc. I can ` t give ways of viewing the BBC TV programme a few years back that spelt out the scandalous Tory hushing-up of knowledge on the danger.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Mike Rivero 2010

The comments at the end of the article talk about whether the press is right to highlight his death or whether the 'hushing-up system' is best.

Whitehaven News headlines 2009

"The 'hushing-up' system is in sanitary matters about as dangerous as anything can well be"

Whitehaven News headlines 2009