Word: discreeter
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Since at least 100.000 more Rumanian Jews are eager to get exit permits, Israel preferred to swallow the "slanders," and to keep discreet silence about the indignities systematically heaped upon departing Jews by the "humanitarian" Rumanians...
...Cradle. Under these pressures-and under discreet but persistent prodding from the U.S.-both Greece and Turkey agreed to pull in their horns. Menderes abandoned his unrealistic demand that Britain partition Cyprus between its 400,000 Greek and 100,000 Turkish inhabitants. Karamanlis made the greater sacrifice of renouncing the dream of enosis-union of Cyprus with Greece...
...make an economic settlement with the British. The U.S. has already agreed to sell him 200,000 tons of surplus wheat, and the French have signed a $5,000,000 barter deal with him. The British-Egyptian compromise was worked out by World Bank President Eugene Black, the discreet and yam-voiced international civil servant from Georgia who also helped the Suez Canal Co. settle with Nasser last spring...
...with elegant dollhouse trees, a banquet starting with pickled sea-urchin eggs, dried seaweed, bonito entrails, mushrooms, and cuttlefish served with maple leaves and chrysanthemums. Above all, it meant the geisha girls themselves, in lacquered wigs and colorful kimonos, who poured sake from porcelain vases, performed their slow and discreet dances, and sang their sad, seductive love invitations...
...paradoxes of which Genet is fond. It is dramatized, summarized, in one moment of action, where Green Eyes "opens his shirt brutally and reveals his torso to Maurice. On it is tattooed a woman's face." In Garen's production, instead of a brutal gesture there is only a discreet peek...