Word: discreeter
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...four of the French Communist Party were sitting around a rickety wooden table in an office on the top floor of the Humanité building in the rue d'Enghien. Most political experts believed that the results could not safely be predicted until midnight. Came a discreet tap on the door and a youth entered bearing a slip of paper. It was the result of the vote in the Ivry-sur-Seine district, Communist stronghold on the outskirts of the city, Thorez' own electoral fief. At Ivry the constitution had been carried...
...life, tall, soft-voiced Victorian Actress Ada Rehan had been a discreet lady...
...Buenos Aires in 1928. They will remember a stubby man with a cocky gait, invariably armed with a cane and wearing a flower in the buttonhole of his well-draped coat. Other foreign embassies around the world remember him for his unbending ways and a cold manner punctuated by discreet belches; he is dyspeptic...
...Thomas Pierrepoint was a good craftsman. He had a keen eye for sizing up the strength of his subjects' neck muscles; he always tied the noose so that it would break the vertebrae at the first snap and spare the poor blighter a lot of agony. He was discreet about his job, never talked to newsmen, never sold souvenirs. He well earned his 15 guineas ($63) for each hanging job; but, as Mrs. Pierrepoint said: "Chief trouble is, the job's not a regular...
Backing up his central assertion on international affairs that "we in the U.S. are living in a glass house and should be discreet about throwing bricks outside," Shapley observed with a smile that the Boston conscience was hardly lily-white in view of the records of its current political leadership, and that Chicago's daily crime episodes, just as an added example, don't suggest our national moral integrity to be beyond reproach from overseas...