Word: discreeter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which the Puerto Rican bishops belong. But 90% Catholic Puerto Rico, though a part of the U.S., has a Spanish-speaking population and Spanish traditions, and is considered by Rome and by the island's bishops a part of Latin America, where prelates are more active and less discreet in politics...
...sells for about $31. Harcourt, Brace stock first went on the market last summer at 23½, is selling at about 27. The stock of Scott, Foresman and Co., biggest publisher of elementary school texts, goes on sale this fall, and Boston's venerable Ginn & Co. is making discreet overtures in the same direction...
...circle. "An American editor told me recently how shocked he was to hear English reviewers speak with frivolous disrespect of a novel by a well-known colleague which, in their reviews, they had discussed at length and seriously." The gossip. Spender hazards, grows out of "a long tradition of discreet indiscretion, which is perhaps the virtue, or polite corruption, passed on by an upper class long used to revealing, and covering over, the misdemeanors of royal persons...
...discreet girl with wisdom apparently beyond her 23 years, Juliet keeps her private life to herself, yet openly and offhandedly refers to her evening drives out to Sinatra's Coldwater Canyon home. "We date. But I would not put it as a big romance. We get on very well together. Gossip doesn't worry me. I'm an open person. I've mixed around in this business long enough not to be embarrassed by anything pertaining...
This story may have placated allies in case of U-2 trouble, but it was bound to fall apart if both plane and pilot were captured. Conventional cloak-and-dagger types argued that the U.S. should have kept a discreet silence in the face of all talk about the U2. They wondered, too, why the U.S., if it really wanted to ensure against detection, could not have subcontracted the job to a foreign pilot without a country, perhaps a refugee from a Communist satellite...