stumm

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They'll keep stumm if they know what's good for them.

Hugh Muir's diary 2011
Sir Paul Stephenson, who also attended the strategic operations subcommittee meeting convened to discuss the hacking crisis, also kept stumm, with the result that the first that members knew about the ruinous development was seeing it on TV.

Hugh Muir's diary 2011
Somehow I think the Right will keep stumm on this one:

Archive 2009-08-01 2009
Not read all the posts sorry – has anyone pointed out that it is schtum not stumm?

boss 2008
Not only do Plaid's Pink Brigade not know when it is wise to keep stumm, but they don't seem to have noticed that the vast majority of their party's members are absolutely livid.

Archive 2007-06-01 2007
Süskind is keeping stumm about the reworking of his best seller.

An Alluring 'Perfume' 2007
More likely any inquiry will be pointless as the secret services will just rightly keep stumm.

Rachel From North London's Interrupted Honeymoon 2007
Since the nominees themselves aren't supposed to know, the nominators aren't supposed to tell, and the Nobel Foundation is keeping stumm for the next half-century, the claim is a meaningless credential.

Nobel gas Ray Girvan 2005
Keinerlei Flucht, kein Schimmer der Hoffnung, stumm liegt Alles.

Poems and Fragments 2006
Keinerlei Flucht, kein Schimmer der Hoffnung, stumm liegt Alles.

Poems and Fragments 2006