Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officials has neither answered these questions nor prevented them from being raised again and again the future. Nor has the government's response: largely confined to denouncing the foreign press. Instead of taking note of the public out-cry against the jailing of Rudolf Augstein, Bonn has lent its tacit support to Herr Strauss' highly successful Christian Social Union campaign strategy in the Bavarian Landelection--calling those asking for his resignation Communists...
...Democratic Party has been notable by its silence. This is especially true with respect to two avowed liberals on the same ticket with Mr. Kelly--Mr. Edward M. Kennedy and Endicott Peabody. Their reluctance to disassociate themselves from these charges will cause many voters to regard their reaction as tacit approval. If this is the case, then it would appear that the opposition voiced in the past against such tactics was aimed more at reducing its effectiveness as used against Democrats than at any moral wrong in using such tactics...
...only in menial positions. Observation of the numbers of Negroes the company had in various jobs, and informal conversations held by white CORE members with supervisors, revealed that although it kept no records of numbers of Negroes hired (in concurrence with Fair Practices Laws), the company indeed had a tacit policy of not hiring or promoting Negroes to either clerical or public relations jobs of any kind...
...after heavily reinforced police had put a moat of barbed wire around Checkpoint Charlie and arrested 128 troublemakers. The Soviet guard faced trouble of a different sort when its commander announced that it was going to drive to the war memorial in three armored personnel carriers, which by tacit agreement between U.S. and Soviet commandants enter each other's sector only if they do not display arms. When the Soviet guard showed up with submachine-gun-toting soldiers standing on the sides of the vehicles, General Watson insisted that they climb inside. After a 43-minute argument, the Russians...
...necessarily means a reasonable amount of money, but in this context money also connotes ability-if the man concerned had not made it him self, he would already be an In. A second requirement is a decent respect for manners and taste, of which the Old Guard remain the tacit custodians...