Word: tacit
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Risky Affair. The new measures were a tacit admission by Labor of what Britain's foreign critics have been saying right along: its previous steps, including higher taxes for consumers, lower taxes for exporters and a 10% surcharge on imports, had been inadequate. Indeed, the latest moves were prompted partly by fear that if there is another pound crisis like last November's, some of the nations that anted up $3 billion to bail out Britain then might not be eager to rescue Britain again. For Labor, which governs by a three-vote majority, the new deflationary steps...
Though Wilson's scheme had the backing of the U.S. and at least tacit support from 16 Commonwealth members, there was more than a little doubt that the mission would get under way next month as Wilson hoped. Even if the Russians ultimately agree to the team's visit, Peking and Hanoi probably will not. Last April, when Wilson's emissary, Patrick Gordon Walker, set off on a similar mission, they would not even receive...
Virtually all the clubs now talk about "liberalizing" their membership policies. The tacit ban on Jews has been relaxed in most clubs, though the ban on Negroes is still in effect. Experiments in "liberalization," however, have met with little success. The boy from public school in Iowa or Oregon elected to a club is often overwhelmed by the heady atmosphere and becomes himself a caricature clubbie...
Overbearing Allies. Noman's peace drive obviously has the tacit blessing of Nasser, who is pained by the $500,000-a-day drain and the occupation of the Egyptian army in a bloody and endless war. In fact, everyone is fed up. The royalist tribes have had their villages bombed to rubble and lost an estimated 40,000 dead. The republican tribes resent their overbearing Egyptian allies, and are discouraged by lack of success in the field. Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who backs the Imam, would be happy to see the Egyptians leave Yemen...
Part of the doctor's optimism for the bill's successful passage is due to the tacit support from a traditional opponent of birth control legislation, the Roman Catholic Church. Richard Cardinal Cushing has publicly stated that "in no way will I feel it my duty to oppose amendment...