Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meaning, abstentions can speak as loudly as an electoral landslide. One party showed ominous strength, though it won no seats at all. It was the National Front, a loose, left-wing coalition that rallies behind old Mohammed Mossadegh, the Red-lining former Premier who has lived under tacit house arrest since leaving prison in 1956. Convinced that the election would be fraudulent, the National Front ordered it boycotted. And last week the Front was taking credit for the fact that of 600,000 eligible voters in the capital city of Teheran, only 65,000 went to the polls...
...caused chiefly by President Kennedy's pledge not to devalue the dollar and to make full use of the U.S. gold supply to back it. Added to this was discreet British buying of gold from the U.S. to increase the market supply and drive down prices (with tacit U.S. approval) and a belief among Europeans that the U.S. recession may not be long or hard, will not call for a drastic easing of credit or a sizable drop in interest rates. In 1960's fourth quarter, the stepped-up flow abroad of short-term capital in search...
...some propaganda at a time when the dollar was having its troubles. Actually, ten old rubles were assigned a gold value of 2.22168 grams, and each new ruble is said to be backed by .987412 grams of gold, so in fact the ruble has been devalued by 50%-a tacit admission that the old official exchange rate of four to $1 was wildly unrealistic...
Running Time. De Gaulle's solution may not suit everybody, but to most Frenchmen it seems to be the only one with a chance of success. At the United Nations, in tacit recognition of De Gaulle's obvious good intentions, France's former colonies in Africa and its Western allies united to defeat the demand for an Algerian referendum on self-determination held under U.N. auspices...
...mystique surrounding Harvard education rests on a tacit agreement that none shall inspire too closely just how the College changes schoolboys into Harvard men: the mystery must be preserved to maintain the power of Harvard's uniquely successful system...