Word: discreetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington society matrons, Doole seemed the very image of discreet old money. In fact, he grew up poor, of strict and frugal Lutheran parents, on a 160-acre hog and chicken farm in Liberty. He went to aggie school at the University of Illinois, where he kept to himself. "We were not real buddy- buddy," says his sister Mildred Nation. "We minded our own business." Winning a commission in the Army in 1931, Doole learned how to fly airplanes. He later became a pilot for Pan Am, at first flying old Ford Tri-motors on the Guatemala-to-Panama...
...magazine is discreet," says Rao. "It's a safe, protected atmosphere because the people who run the personals know the background of the people who read them. There's a network, a camaraderie, between Harvard alums...
Enrile also has a reputation for being reform-minded. Over the past two decades he has emerged as a discreet internal critic of the Marcos government, even though he was an architect and implementer of the 1972 martial law crackdown. Although Enrile had never openly criticized the President until now, despite a humiliating loss of power to General Ver, which Marcos ) sanctioned, as long as two years ago he had begun privately to confide his concerns about Ver's broad powers. If Marcos again declared martial law, he said, he would feel compelled to quit his post...
...mail volume at the warehouse-size depots maintained by top televangelists is monumental. For instance, Billy Graham is notably discreet in asking for money, but after his telecasts 40,000 or 50,000 letters a day come in to his Minneapolis headquarters. Graham remains the leader in prime- time evangelism, confining himself to infrequent specials. Among last year's productions was coverage of his pathbreaking preaching in Communist Hungary and Rumania. The 1985 cost for airtime and other TV expenses was $18,675,000, about a third of his overall budget...
Shortly after Regan took over as chief of staff last January, the normally discreet McFarlane began grumbling about his job. He first felt shunted aside by Regan at the European economic summit last spring in Bonn. The National Security Adviser had opposed the President's visit on the same trip to a German military cemetery at Bitburg, where Nazi SS officers were buried, but Reagan went ahead with it. When Reagan was hospitalized for cancer surgery in July, the chief of staff had McFarlane present his daily security briefings to the President in writing, rather than orally. At the same...