Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the prayer was sectarian, the schools' use of it jeopardized the students' right to freedom of religion. To a child, the school is the fountain of knowledge and source of authority. If the school favors or encourages a practice or belief, the child must make the tacit assumption that such schools' use practice of or such a belief is prayer is a "right." Thus misuse of the its position of authority and fosters, even in the nonparticipating child, a faith in the Tightness of the prayer...
...last week President Kennedy had the air of a man who hopes for the best-but expects something less. On one hand, he insisted that the recovery "has been a good one." and to bolster his point, cited a list of economic indicators at record levels. Then, in a tacit admission that he was just as disappointed in the economy's lack of zip as most businessmen, the President proceeded to promise that he would ask Congress for "an across-the-board reduction in personal and corporate income tax." effective...
Clearly the future of General Education in science at Harvard depends very much on the interpretation of this point. But there has been no attempt to determine which disciplines should be treated this way. The courses that double as General Education and introductory concentrators' concentration work are tacit recognition of what remains an hypothesis...
...S.A.O. turnabout stems partly from the fact that the terrorists now hate De Gaulle even more than they hate the Moslems. But it is also a tacit admission that Algérie Française is dead, and that the S.A.O. terror campaign, which slew an average of 1,000 Moslems a month, failed of its major purpose-to incite a racial bloodbath in Algeria that would force the French army to defy De Gaulle and come in on the side of the Europeans...
Every so often there is a peace scare, at which point Dr. Adenauer expresses his fear and the stock market dips. There is little, apparently, that the U.S. Government can do about Dr. Adenauer; but it can do a great deal about the tacit fear that disarmament entails economic risk...