Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approved, the resolution would give tacit approval to a new departure in U.S. foreign policy-the alignment of the U.S. with Europe, for the first time in its peacetime history, for mutual defense...
...such campaigns, since many excellent candidates are reluctant to go out and stump for votes. It is vitally important to stir up student interest in the Council, and to get the best men in office through sensible and thorough campaigns. Electioneering is surely worth a test; the tacit policy of leaving the voter alone has been tried and found distinctly wanting...
...affirmative vote, this afternoon would signify tacit Council consent to any other existing and future political organizations which guarantee no outside affiliations. Such groups as the Young Republican Club and the Committee for Wallace already have strong Radcliffe backing and grant of charters would permit these embryo clubs to use Radcliffe property for Harvard Radcliffe rallies...
Many Congressmen were out politicking. Before they left Washington, they had reached a tacit gentleman's agreement that not much serious work would be done in Congress while they were gone. The little that did get done was right in line with the election-year emphasis on economy and tax cuts...
...witness in these times a climax of nationalism," Noel was quoted as writing. "Citizenship in a nation being tacit acceptance and approval of this situation, or else ignorance of these facts, has become intolerable and incompatible with my personal conventions," he concluded...