Word: discreeter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REFERENCE to the expenses thus incurred in looking over those $90-a-day Caribbean resorts might be one way to lead up to discussing the cover story on Tax Collector Mortimer Caplin. A more discreet way is to tell of another TIME correspondent at work, this one in Charlottesville, Va. A dean was telling him that Professor Caplin's taxation course was popular but hard, and that no one-including Bobby Kennedy-had taken the course just to get an easy grade. Well, then, what grade did Caplin give Bobby? "Fine, I'll get that for you," said...
...congressional one of trying to stop the fellow from talking or getting a simple answer to a simple question; it was one of getting much at all from a reticent man who will speak candidly about taxes but doesn't enjoy talking about himself. Furthermore, Mills is a discreet politician, not given to describing how he intends to play his hand...
Pope John let the Curia have its way. To Boston's Richard Cardinal Cushing, he explained: "Sono net sacco qui"?"I'm in a bag here." But when the council fathers arrived in Rome, they began getting discreet telephone calls from Monsignor Loris Capovilla, the Pope's private secretary, subtly disassociating the Pope from the Curia. The progressives among the bishops correctly deduced that John wanted a wholesale reform, but they did not at first realize their own strength. Gradually, encouraged by the knowledge that the world was watching, they became emboldened. "We heard men dare to say things...
...university must reserve the right to take appropriate action in cases of gross misconduct," Summerskill said. He added that "gross misconduct" was not clearly defined. Asked if the university's policy was an appeal to students to be discreet in their social activities, Summerskill said "perhaps that might be read into...
...Indian consulates in Shanghai and Lhasa. This did not affect India's Peking embassy, which, aggression or no aggression, was doing business as usual. At week's end. some of its business was revealed: under orders from Nehru, Indian diplomats in Peking were carrying on discreet preliminary peace talks with China...