Word: tacitly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deny the fact of a palace rift. This being so, Dutch editors were discreetly doubtful of the wisdom of putting out any statement at all, but government authority answered that the need for it involved not the public but the principals themselves. It was, in a sense, a tacit admission that difficulties still exist in the House of Orange-Nassau...
...hour visit, Sherman Adams reported on the preparations by the convention-arrangements committee for a short three-or-four-day convention, noting, to Ike's satisfaction, that Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, will be the keynote speaker. But the tacit ban on politics by all hands until the chief himself broached the subject jarred sharply with optimistic Republican organization insistence on the status quo. The indication: a realistic Chief Executive once again was testing himself against the job ahead...
...many cities where their plurality did not win them control, the Christian Democrats and their coalition partners will be forced to make alliances, either tacit or actual. To most left-of-center Christian Democrats, alliances with the Monarchists and Neo-Fascists are distasteful...
...disagreement over policy within the Administration, President Eisenhower gave FRB and Martin his tacit support. Said Ike: "If it [the Federal Reserve] believes that money is getting too tight because of this, they will take measures to meet...
Taken by themselves, these evils might perhaps be survived. But what sends Mills's fever up is his conviction that he smells something-perhaps not a plot, but surely a tacit and cynical understanding among the big-corporation heads, the "warlords" and the "very rich" to take the country away from the common man. This is big; this is cold, naked power wielded by mindless giants who make life-and-death decisions without moral or intellectual regard for the consequences. Success no longer matters, because to achieve success today is to admit one's moral bankruptcy...