Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being used to train Cubans to export revolution and sabotage throughout Latin America. Moreover, by one White House estimate, at least 13,000 students from other Latin American nations are in Castro's Communist schools; about 100 graduate agents leave Cuba monthly to cause trouble back home. The tacit bargain with Khrushchev may have its advantages for the U.S., but it has them for Khrushchev...
...elected Governor in 1942, and went to the Senate in 1948. He became the second-ranking Democrat, behind Virginia's Byrd, on the Senate Finance Committee. As such, he last year helped push through much of President Kennedy's tax program, to which Byrd was opposed. In tacit return for Kerr's favors, the President did not push for changes in the oil-depletion allowance...
...unleashed. The importance of the council that he called is already clear. By revealing in Catholicism the deep-seated presence of a new spirit crying out for change and rejuvenation, it shattered the Protestant view of the Catholic Church as a monolithic and absolutist system. It also marked the tacit recognition by the Catholic Church, for the first time, that those who left it in the past may have had good cause. "Even the most agnostic and atheistic people were cheered when they saw those thoughtful people saying those thoughtful things," says one Harvard scientist...
...would be cut back. His Pentagon staff worked overtime to win the support of reluctant Congressmen. McNamara himself paid a quiet call on Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, at Vinson's cattle farm. Flattered, Vinson couldn't say no. His tacit agreement led to last week's announcement of the biggest reform of the nation's standing militia since World...
...refuge for Communists or fellow-travellers." The station suggested that Shapiro teach in Cuba. The State of Michigan has a long and unenviable record of applying political pressure on its public universities. At Wayne State in Detroit, curriculum and personnel have, from time to time, been subject to a tacit veto by the state legislature which allocates funds. Michigan State, which boasts of being the "pioneer land grant college," seems to be receptive to similar pressures...