Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Grau knew that he had public opinion behind him, and the tacit support of the U.S. Last week, when disturbances continued, Grau went to one source of the trouble. He fired Havana Police Official Donoso, jailed numerous policemen who had been suspected of brutality and killings during the Batista regime. At the same time. Grau warned the troublemakers to settle their differences in court. Eduardo Chibas, Government leader in the Senate, who has a flair for the dramatic, announced: "The President has taken personal command of the maintenance of order in Cuba...
...subcommittee's chief conclusion: that "severe self-imposed rationing . . . if made by tacit agreement between the distillers, is a violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of the Sherman Antitrust...
...could risk on a first novel, used to brag in their ads if any first novel topped that figure. Now first novels like Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend and John Hersey's A Bell For Adano have both sold nearly 35,000 copies. Most publishers, by tacit agreement, have stopped using sales figures in advertising because, with the Government stressing the paper shortage, big printings might be misunderstood...
...barely recognizes the value of the Supreme Court as a repository of what might be termed "sleeping" power. By the very fact of its existence the Court compels Congress to be careful of the phraseology of bills. And in a federal system, a Supreme Court is necessary as a tacit reminder to keep the legislatures of the 48 States from nullifying the powers of the Government in Washington. Conversely, a Supreme Court is also needed to protect the 48 States against overriding federal law. Professor Commager assumes that State legislatures will not do radically unconstitutional things, though he admits that...
Postponement must have been a large word in Moscow; practically none of the difficult, specific and all-important mechanics for applying the adopted principles had been announced or, apparently, worked out. But in some instances "postponement" must have been the essence of tacit agreement-for example, on the question of Russia's border provinces...