Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Am Ex officials plotted new ways to combat Pan Am, hoped for CAB action on the TACA purchase within about a week. Am Ex has the tacit backing of the U. S. War, Navy and State Departments. Pan Am has vast resources, an experienced Washington lobby and the knowledge that TACA's Guatemalan rights, core of the line, will expire next February-unless General Ubico renews them...
...perhaps 150,000 Greeks; the fourth biggest navy in the world against one obsolescent cruiser, ten destroyers, 13 torpedo boats, six submarines and a few miscellaneous craft; 500 modern planes and as many more in reserve against perhaps 200 old crates (Junkers, Gloucester Gladiators, Blackburns, even French planes); the tacit support of Germany, with some 70 divisions of 1,125,000 men poised in the Balkans (according to British sources), against overt help from Britain, militarily pinned down at home and in Egypt. Despite this apparently overwhelming disparity, the Greeks chose to fight. Ancient valor was reborn...
...squeezed into Cleveland's vast Auditorium. They had cheered their hearts out, cheered even after he started to speak. Then they had sat spellbound while Roosevelt, fatigue written on his face, struck with every weapon at his foes. There for the first time he gave tacit recognition to the Third Term issue, asked for a chance "to stick it out" for "four more years." He promised: "When that term is over there will be another President of the U. S." He had told them of a renascent...
...second important phrase, "conscientiously opposed to war in any form," is more significant for what it leaves unsaid than for what it does say. Anyone who does not make any statement under this section, Section X on his questionnaire, is tacitly giving his conscientious approval to participation in "any form" of war, not only in defensive war. Form 47, to be sent in along with the questionnaire, will be the last chance for those who sincerely oppose war, or who believe only in defensive war, to make their full position known. A large enough body of determined opinion against...
President Roosevelt merely replied that he was quoting the press back at the newsmen. The implication that Hitler and Mussolini wanted him out-first advanced by Henry Wallace, offered last week by Governor Lehman-now had more than tacit sanction of the President himself. Wallace had been reproved by many people and Lehman's repetition by still more (said Oswald Garrison Villard, "It seems to me that your declaration that a vote for Willkie will be a vote for Hitler . . . touches the low-water mark of unfair, unjust and intolerable partisanship . . . playing upon passions and prejudices which you ought...