Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part, the U.S. warned North Viet Nam that it took a "serious view" of incidents since the bombing halt in which Communist forces fired on allied troops from inside the Demilitarized Zone, thus violating the tacit agreement that North Viet Nam would respect the inviolability of the DMZ in return for the halt. There have been several such violations confirmed so far. In the most serious, Communist 122-mm. rocket and 75-mm. artillery fire killed five U.S. Marines at Con Thien and wounded 46. The U.S. retaliated with fire in each incident...
...city's plight, of course, was not one of physical survival-though some cynics argued that New York's complex ills could only be cured if the metropolis were razed and rebuilt. Its breakdown this fall was one of spirit and nerve, a malaise that affected the tacit assumptions of trust and interdependence without which no organism so vast and disparate can possibly function. In what most responsible citizens concede to be one of the ugliest situations in memory, strikes and the threat of strikes pitted not only union against employer-the city-but, worse, black against white...
...circumstances beyond their control-neither exactly allegorical nor neatly symbolic -which fill them with dread. As the play progresses, The Sound drives the increasingly unsettled father into even smaller and poorer apartments. The members of the menage disappear one by one, until he is left alone with his battered, tacit adversary, known (in the program) as The Schmurz. What is The Schmurz-the awful awareness of one's own death? Is despair The Sound that drives this man into an ever-narrowing corner, where he babbles of flowers on his windowsill and dons his old uniform to fight...
...their kind of personal journalism has its dangers, warns Fleming. It is based on the "more or less tacit consensus of the intellectual establishment that objectivity does not exist. Hence the personal comment which attempts to do no more than state one man's point of view on a certain patch of experience." "Pure objectivity," he says, is probably an unattainable ideal. "But this does not mean that it should be abandoned any more than we should stop trying to tell each other the truth because an awful lot of people in this world are liars...
...reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle," he says. "I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and De Gaulle." But if he has not reconciled the two institutions, he has at least bridged them. As for the future, Paris rumor has it that, during the tumult, Pompidou reached a clear but tacit agreement with De Gaulle on when the President would retire. Whether that is true or not, when a lonely, shaken De Gaulle was planning his now famous rendezvous with French generals, he found time to telephone Pompidou. De Gaulle's parting words seem as prophetic today as they were...