Word: discreetly
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...acts real sweet, And her Pop's always discreet...
...gathered around a newly opened marble and granite mausoleum in Peking's T'ien An Men Square last week, honoring the memory of Mao Tse-tung on the first anniversary of his death. Although they joined in the tributes, Peking's new rulers also issued a discreet warning against exaggerated respect for the late beloved Chairman. In a Red Flag article broadcast by Peking radio, Politburo Member Nieh Jung-chen argued that Mao's thoughts should be used as a general guide to the solution of China's problems, not followed slavishly. Nieh said...
...makers of foreign cars and cameras have no such qualms, and their ads fill the magazines. Detroit-and General Motors in particular-has held off. Playboy attracts twice the advertising revenue of Penthouse but finds itself schizophrenically split, trying to stay audacious enough to hold its audience while discreet enough to reassure the advertiser. The trick, says one of its worried editors, is "how to become more erotic but less raunchy." To the less inhibited Guccione, advertising is all "gravy," but he resents the fact that Kodak won't even advertise in Photo World, his picture magazine, and piously...
...estranged husband Lord Snowdon traveled to St. Paul's by car and sat a discreet eight rows behind the royal family during the service...
...lake was Charles Bouchard, former manager of Banque Leclerc, a small, discreet Geneva financial institution that Swiss authorities had ordered closed pending an investigation into losses of $12 million or more in real estate ventures. Only a few days earlier, Bertrand de Muralt, a Leclerc partner and reserve Swiss army major, had shot himself with his revolver. Robert Leclerc, for whom the bank is named, suffered a heart attack...