Word: discreeter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Naturally we share every American's desire not to have any of our nuclear secrets given away, and when in doubt always clear with proper authority in Washington discreet information that we sometimes come across. But we don't think a political decision to minimize an event for propaganda reasons is quite the same thing; we think it conflicts with a basic national right to be told as much as possible (within the limits of security) about a program that has so much importance to us and to the world, that costs so much money, and that ultimately...
Bell' Antonio (Levine; Embassy), directed by Italy's Mauro Bolognini, is a serious and discreet discussion of a case of impotence. The hero (Marcello Mastroianni) lusts only for women he cannot love; the woman he loves (Claudia Cardinale) he imagines an "angel," and he cannot imagine muddying her wings with animality. When she wins an annulment he is desolate, and his family is disgraced -in Sicily, where the family lives, a man's virility and his public position are intimately interdependent. In despair, the young man turns to a servant girl, gets her with child. The honor...
...formality in religious service has been accompanied by a formality in clerical dress. In the New England Council of the United Churches of Christ, whose ministers a few years ago seldom wore anything more ecclesiastical than a discreet dark suit, more than half of the ministers now use a clerical collar. In 1941, according to a survey conducted by the United Lutheran Church in America, 1.500 out of 2,000 of their ministers wore either a simple black robe or no robe at all at services; now two-thirds of them dress in either cassock, surplice and stole or full...
...those who stand to gain most from the recruiting system are executives themselves. Through a discreet word to a recruiter, a dissatisfied executive can be put on to opportunities in industries where he has no personal contacts and can make himself available without advertising his restlessness. For U.S. managers as a class, the recruiting firms now serve as a kind of informal trade union, a force obliging U.S. corporations to worry about their executives' well-being and to nurture it financially-or run the risk of being raided...
...began during the first bloody months of independence only 15 months ago. Preparing for a possible new round of civil war, U.N. forces got their first shipment of eight jets (from Sweden and Ethiopia) last week, and one Congolese Cabinet officer bought a bulletproof vest from a discreet St. James's tailor in London...