Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...province and hundreds of smaller concerns. At independence, the portfolio was worth more than $700 million; it has since skidded to less than half that value. More than any other economic factor, the desire to keep control of Union Minière and related properties prompted Belgium's tacit backing of the Katanga secession under Moise Tshombe, which was eventually crushed by the U.N. Early last year, the Belgians turned away from Tshombe and accepted the U.N.'s demand for a united Congo...
Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall has given his tacit encouragement to opponents of the proposed underpasses along Memorial Drive...
...most significant question in the affair, be felt, was whether Red China's acceptance of an ambassador from France while France maintains diplomatic relations with Nationalist China would represent a tacit acceptance of a world with two Chinas...
...lived up to its world reputation. Boiling through the streets of the city, thousands of rioters went on a three-day rampage to protest the birth of the neighboring Federation of Malaysia, which joins Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo in a new British Commonwealth nation. With the tacit approval of Indonesia's rabble-rousing President Sukarno, who bitterly opposes the federation for the challenge it poses to his influence in Southeast Asia, the mob succeeded in presenting the fledgling nation with a full-grown diplomatic and military crisis before it was even one week...
Several Federal courts have directed school boards to eliminate racially imbalanced schools, using the 1954 Brown V Board of Education decision as justification. The Supreme Court has refused to review appeals to the decisions, thus giving them tacit approval...