Word: tacit
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Bellotti's speech highlighted an organizational meeting at which Young Democrats also endorsed all Massachusetts Democratic candidates, staged a mild revolt against the leadership, and voted against tacit approval of Noel Day's Congressional campaign...
Brimming Heart. For Nasser, the very talks with Feisal were tacit admission that his forces were not really scoring ringing victory after ringing victory, a startling retreat from the extravagant claims he had been making in the past. Nasser also backed down from his pretense that the Yemen war was caused solely by infiltrators from Saudi Arabia and the British colony of Aden. In their official communiqué the two leaders promised to 1) cooperate fully to solve the existing differences between the various factions in Yemen, 2) work together in preventing armed clashes in Yemen, and 3) reach...
Levy cites evidence to argue that Jefferson was just as careless of civil liberties as a peacetime President. Angered by vicious journalistic attacks on him, he advocated "wholeseome prosecutions to restore the integrity of the presses." With Jefferson's tacit approval, a federal judge whom he had appointed secured indictments against a group of publishers and clergymen for libeling the Government. Charges were dropped only after it became clear that one of the ministers had facts and figures to back up a gamy story that the President had once attempted to seduce a friend's wife...
Faced with Scranton's tacit refusal, the club will now ask Senator Smith to accept the award, Von Salzen said. He indicated that he would be in touch with the Senator's office in the near future to arrange details, including the date of her appearance in Cambridge...
...months after the meeting, Tisserant wrote a letter to the Archbishop of Paris, then Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard, repeating his suggestion. He did not criticize the Pope, Tisserant insisted last week, giving copies of the letter to the press. His target was the Roman Curia, which, Tisserant charged, had a tacit agreement with Hitler: the Curia would remain silent in exchange for making Rome an open city. "That is a disgrace," wrote Tisserant. "I am afraid history will reproach the Holy See for having followed a policy which was convenient to itself, and for not having done much else. This...