Word: tacitly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question of international atomic control has always been up to the Russians. At no time from the end of World War II to the present, would the West have rejected a reasonable proposal. Indeed, there has been a tacit standing offer during that entire period. Had the Russians any real desire to develop the atom on a peaceful basis in cooperation with the West, they might have made an offer long...
Most other Hall of Fame shows have been biographical playlets with upbeat endings, perfectly tailored to the TV market. Director McCleery does these standard items cheerfully, because he has worked out a tacit agreement with his sponsor, Hallmark Cards: "If I do four or five popular hits, then they'll let me do a serious show." Among his other serious shows to date: the trial of Socrates and a rather flat version of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid ("It laid an egg, but in ten years my sponsors will be proud they were among the first to produce...
...next ten years. The SEC, which usually opposes, in principle, such provisions to freeze current high-interest rates into an issue for long periods, let the clause stand, only because it thought Arkansas Louisiana probably could not have got the money without it. But the clause was a tacit admission by the lenders that they believed money would become cheaper...
...answer questions posed by three Congressional committees on grounds of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Fifty-four had been dismissed or suspended from their jobs. Others were on probation or under official censure. All, according to polls of public opinion, had received the tacit condemnation of their fellow citizens...
...Roosevelt's position was ambiguous. Stimson had been defeated; the Colonel had further alienated the Old Guard, and his tacit support of Taft had alarmed the insurgents. "To St. Helena,' cried his opponents, predicting that the name of Theodore Roosevelt would be but a memory...