Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never believed in presidential primaries-people don't win nominations that way. Jack Kennedy was an exception. But if somebody sticks my name in a primary, depending on how it comes out, I might at least give tacit approval to a movement for me if there was a good showing to start with...
...tacit recognition of the incompatibility of their work with a university environment, they have established a private organization--the International Foundation for Internal Freedom. Leary has already left the University to devote his full energies to this group, and Alpert had also planned to spend much of his time with the Foundation during his year at the School of Education...
...Fundamentals. Another tacit understanding between the big powers, according to Felix, is that political assassination will not be included in secret operations, on the theory that the murder of chiefs of state cannot resolve the existing conflicts between East and West. The recruitment of good U.S. secret agents is difficult, largely because gait, posture, manner and even physique make Americans readily identifiable abroad. As a result, U.S. intelligence services draw largely on naturalized U.S. citizens-which makes it somewhat easier for the Russians to penetrate the system by planting a counterspy in the guise of a recent defector...
...make them less dependent on foreign aid. The U.S. Government, which has had some bitter experiences in this connection (the $500 million in aid that the U.S. has pumped into Brazil during the past nine years has been completely swallowed up by declining coffee prices), has given its tacit approval to commodity price agreements. "We are for such agreements," says Antonio Carrillo Flores, Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S., "because no better form has been devised...
...prospect was shattered last January when Brigadier General Kim Chong Pil, husband of Park's niece and boss of the dreaded Central Intelligence Agency, quit the C.I.A. in order to grab control of the regime's civilian political organization, the Democratic-Republican Party. With Park's tacit approval, Kim, whose 30,000 snoopers had kept tabs on anything and anyone the junta might distrust-including members of the junta-infiltrated the party's power positions with 1,200 of his former C.I.A. agents...