Word: discreeter
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...anything, reflection should be on the reverse. There is no community concerned with foreign policy in the United States where the critic of our involvement in Vietnam is not accorded a warm and even enthusiastic hearing. There are quite a few where it is not deemed tactful or discreet for an official defender to appear. For the first time in our history this spring the spokesmen for our foreign policy found it necessary, in pursuit of this discretion, to avoid that fine old American folkrite, the commencement ceremony. Either too many students and too many faculty would be present...
Awarding red hats is a papal act requiring exquisite diplomacy and political tact. Ideally, a list of new cardinals should pay discreet homage to every major segment of the Roman Catholic Church: a prelate or two from major sees that traditionally require cardinal-archbishops; a sprinkling of faithful retainers from the Roman Curia; a spokesman for at least one nation that has never before had a member of the sacred college; a heroic bishop who has defended the Christian faith behind the Iron Curtain; and at least one energetic American...
Early in the game, all the competing U.S. firms got discreet assurances from Washington that there would be no objection to private U.S. capital participation in the project, despite the political risks involved...
...increasing their numbers in the state legislature. Aside from suggesting that more candidates would be run and more money would be spent, Buckley predicted that Volpe would appoint some Democratic legislators to important, attractive administration posts to get them out of the legislature. Buckley could have been more discreet, but what he said was not particularly shocking. Democrats and Republicans have been using patronage for years to thin enemy ranks...
Since the elections, according to Lottman, state and county officials have been much less discreet in their behavior towards Negroes; they have condoned behavior that they discouraged in the days when Negroes were lining up in large numbers to register. "Nobody's afraid of the Negro vote these days," says Lottman. "Nobody's afraid that the federal government is going to do anything...