Word: tacitly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Guns. This is just what Professor Salvemini, a Mazzini republican of the old school,† is afraid of. Like many Britons and Americans, he believes that a social upheaval will result from the invasion of Italy. He fears that Roosevelt, Churchill, the Vatican and many Italian reactionaries are in tacit agreement to check this social revolution by keeping intact the machinery of the Fascist state and local administrators. This requires that the Italian army "remain faithful to the Monarchy and to its own chiefs, so that it will not hesitate to machine-gun the rebels...
...apparently looked the other way. The press, with the exception of the Daily News and Hollywood Citizen-News, helped whip up the mob spirit. And Los Angeles, apparently unaware that it was spawning the ugliest brand of mob action since the coolie race riots of the 1870s, gave its tacit approval...
...intense loyalty of Bennett and Sorensen there can be no question. But as to how they will pull together - with Edsel gone - there is doubt. The empire has long been split into two warring kingdoms, with Bennett ruling one, Sorensen the other. Edsel Ford gave his tacit support to Sorensen, counteracting the tremendous influence Bennett has with Henry Ford. The scales are now tipped far the other way. This Tuesday Bennett was made a director (Sorensen was one already) at the same time that Edsel's widow and three other executives were added to the board. But Henry Ford...
According to his opinion, there is less inclination to use the church as a political and military weapon, and more of a tacit willingness to let it cultivate "those concerns which Christendom has tended to concede it as its distinctive bailiwick. Such a task would seem to be its most effective contribution to national morale." However, Dean Sperry warned of the danger of divorcing religion from the fabric of culture and the course of history, thereby leaving the ordering of civilization to secular forces...
...years when Henderson bossed prices the official Administration policy (as revealed in action) made two tacit assumptions: 1) that prices could be held tight by the use of direct price controls and ceilings unsupported by a strong, courageous fiscal policy; 2) that the U.S. could fight a major war without having higher prices exact the inevitable economic sacrifices of war from its citizens...