Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conquering Design. Stevenson argued that the admission of Red China would 1) be irreversible. 2) add a "disruptive and demoralizing influence" to the U.N., 3) shake public confidence in the U.N., especially in the U.S., "and this alone would significantly weaken the organization," and 4) give tacit consent to Red China's "design to conquer Taiwan and the eleven million people who live there...
Perhaps in tacit recognition of this absence, Council candidates and incumbents alike have refrained from any recriminations which might tend to underscore it. Some School Committee hopefuls, however, have raked over the past loudly and come up with what amounts to an articulation of emptiness. Their inability to locate any real dirt which the incumbent Committee might have hidden under the rug only serves to indicate that Cambridge has a decent and improving school system, abetted by a progressive School Committee...
...indicate that his family had been quite wealthy before the war. Yet there was no doubt that he too was earning a very adequate income. Another young doctor later explained that professionals were so badly needed now that the state not only paid good salaries but had dropped the tacit requirement of earlier days that professionals be good Communists...
...cold war did not exist. This is Berlin's Air Safety Center, where the West advises East of its flights up the three air corridors over Communist territory from West Germany. The system is supposed to avoid accidents; in fact, it neatly ties the Soviets to tacit recognition of the West's rights to fly the disputed airlanes. Many Western officers think Russia will one day walk out of the Safety Center, leaving the Western planes to fly through the corridors unannounced, and mingle dangerously with Communist aircraft in the area. Then the West will have its signal...
Consensus is that disappointed Labor Premier Einar Gerhardsen will soon resign, but that the Labor Party will manage to hang on. Likely compromise: Laborite Nils Langhelle, president of the Storting, will take over a minority government with tacit conservative support. One thing was certain: in view of the pressing problem of Common Market entry and Norway's vital role in NATO, neither Labor nor the other old-line parties want to give the fellow-traveling upstarts a chance to play the balance-of-power game...