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    6 months ago

    For further context the phrase was largely leveraged to stop the spread of bad news on the war front. They were fairly confident that a German spy network didn’t exist within American society at the time of the campaign, but didn’t want negative press to circulate about the war effort.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loose_lips_sink_ships