Word: tacitly
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...accept the meek, passive role the University seems intent on having them play with regard to policy. While it is impossible to predict the shape of Harvard's anti-apartheid movement in the fall, students must not acquiesce to the April decision, for to do so would be a tacit acceptance of Harvard's South African policy...
...there is nothing potentially more explosive than teasing a fatalistic Red Sox fan--a hungry breed of sports fan, a bug-eyed baseball lunatic who in the summer months follows every pitch and grabs for every grain of hope with the tacit, suppressed knowledge in the back of his mind that around August, no matter how many home runs Jim Rice hits, or how awesome Yaz is out there in left--the cold hand of fate will sweep down from New York or Baltimore or Detroit and topple all the dominos...
...their favorite psychological ploys is typified by the first story above. Either an onlooker or the fencer himself will make the tacit assumption that they or their man has won the point. The most dramatic method of assumption is the ripping off of a mask by a fencer who believes he's made the fifth and bout-winning touch...
With good reason, claims Stern. Kissinger ignored U.S. intelligence predictions of the plot against Makarios, thus missing a chance to head off the crisis. Worse, he allowed the Greek junta to think it had tacit U.S. approval for its plot. In the tense week after Makarios' ouster, while the rest of the world was condemning Sampson and his backers in Athens, the Secretary of State did not disguise his relief at the defeat of Makarios, whom he had long regarded as a mercurial, left-leaning troublemaker. By his refusal to denounce the coup, Kissinger seemed to tilt toward Sampson...
...with ululations of joy, as if he had led his legions to victory over their mortal foe. Other Arabs were shocked, puzzled or silent. The Saudis, whose oil wealth has helped keep Egypt from bankruptcy for the past ten years, went quietly but cautiously along. He received too the tacit support of Jordan's King Hussein. But radical Palestinians denounced Sadat as a traitor and put a price on his head. A so-called summit of Arab "steadfast states" in Tripoli, convoked by Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, froze relations with Egypt. Calling their bluff?without Egypt defending the southern front...