Word: indiscreetness
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...Agencies have been directed. The HSA deserves a chance to function independently of a director whom many will not trust, a man who, exposed to peculiar temptations, has on occasion apparently succumbed to them. The great potential for good of the HSA should not be frustrated by an indiscreet manager...
...that I have read all the rest of them, but I can recognize a unique breadth of feeling for the needs and the drifts of the times. I would like to know and shake hands with the chap who did it, but I won't ask any indiscreet questions...
...sincere talk and offers of bountiful aid, had put on the black mantle of the interventionist and had lost itself many amigos in sensitive Latin America. It shocked others by appearing weak in the face of a small Caribbean dictator and appalled everyone by being both indiscreet and ineffective. "If that is the kind of assistance we may expect in our fight with Communism," said a Peruvian journalist, "then it's high time we stopped being anti-Communist...
...Indiscreet Tradition. Because of their intimacy, London's writers are a gossipy set with little sense of a public beyond their own circle. "An American editor told me recently how shocked he was to hear English reviewers speak with frivolous disrespect of a novel by a well-known colleague which, in their reviews, they had discussed at length and seriously." The gossip. Spender hazards, grows out of "a long tradition of discreet indiscretion, which is perhaps the virtue, or polite corruption, passed on by an upper class long used to revealing, and covering over, the misdemeanors of royal persons...
...pipeline and would require a higher rate of return than the 7% asked for by Tennessee. Concluded Congressman Bennett: "The most charitable thing that could be said about your conversation with Mr. Corcoran, both on your part and his was that it was not only unfortunate but foolhardy and indiscreet...