Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of the postwar era, virtually alone on the pinnacle of power. The possibility of war between America and the Soviet Union obviously will persist, but armed conflict is a very distant possibility in the '70s. Since the Cuban missile crisis, both nations have slowly arrived at the tacit but wary understanding that dropping the bomb would mean global disaster, and the balance of nuclear terror has proved to be exactly that-a durable and war-deterring balance. A reactionary, repressive Government in the U.S., with a rigidly anti-Communist foreign policy, could upset the scales; so could...
Richard A. McCray, assistant professor of Astronomy, opposed the defense contracts not because they provide useful research to the military, but because their existence indicates a tacit support of the military establishment, he said...
What brought on the Agnew attack? In the past, the Administration has avowed that his salvos have had only tacit, after-the-fact approval from the White House. This one had its genesis in Richard Nixon's office on the morn ing after his Viet Nam speech, when the President read the news summary edited for him by Speechwriter Pat Buchanan-and concluded that the TV commentators had chopped him up. "There was fairly widespread dismay and unhappiness around here," says one White House aide wryly. The incoming mail showed that some of the President's supporters were...
...greatest concessions" involved the U.S. bombing halt in exchange for a tacit agreement with North Viet Nam to stop attacks on South Vietnamese cities as well as military operations in the DMZ, and acceptance of the South Vietnamese government at the conference table...
...dangers. One is to the students who attend them. Pointing out that many of the teachers are segregationists who fled jobs in public schools to escape integration, the Southern Regional Council warns: "Their potential danger to the minds of children is enhanced because many of these schools at least tacitly approve of their prejudices." Often the approval is more than tacit: several segregation academies in South Carolina honor their graduates with diplomas and "survivor pins," which show a Confederate flag with the word survivor engraved across...