Word: tacitly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberal bigwigs were too fond of defeated Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, 75, to dethrone him abruptly. But others were less solicitous: the liberal Toronto Star hammered away with Louis-must-go editorials; the Ontario Young Liberals Association breathed fire against "our latter-day leaders." Last week, with the tacit approval of his political intimates, "Uncle Louis" announced that he would step down as Liberal chief, explained: "I no longer have the vigor and energy to lead the party through an election...
...Congress to increase the annual number of immigrants to the U.S. from about 155,000 to about 190,000. He also laid U.S. good faith on the line-to the cheers of Congressmen and editorial writers-by admitting 24,-600 Hungarian refugees to the U.S. "on parole," with the tacit understanding that legislation to grant them permanent visas would come later...
Shibboleths & Shenanigans. A more serious flaw in business reporting is the deep-rooted aversion of most business editors to controversy, gloom or criticism-in tacit cahoots with the managerial mentality that believes that the private lives of corporations should be immune from the irreverent scrutiny to which the press routinely subjects politics, government and the boudoir antics of showfolk. "Business too often takes the attitude that the press must cooperate or be guilty of an antibusiness attitude," says the Chicago Sun-Times's deep-digging Financial Editor Austin Wehrwein, who frequently writes columns on the mythical Pfutzer Foundry & Finished...
...present Communist regime but the World War II, right-wing government in exile, still hanging on in London. This would have embarrassed Wyszynski in his dealings with the Communist government of Wladyslaw Gomulka. But insiders who know the importance of ceremonial minutiae at the Vatican could see tacit support of the exiles for the cardinal in the presence of their spiritual adviser, Archbishop Josef Gawlina, Ordinary to the Poles-in-exile...
Thus an issue which had seemed explosive only two months ago seemed to be gradually subsiding into a tacit acquiescence. As usual, Arab leaders were making suitable protests to satisfy their public. Last week they ordered the Kern Hills blacklisted in all Arab countries. They had already asked Iran to refuse to sell any more oil to Israel; Iran promised, but it is not yet clear whether Iran will object to having its oil sold to various "John Does" who might or might not sell to Israel...