Word: tacitly
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While Dartmouth was coming back, while the visiting Hanoverians screamed "Go Green Go" the Harvard players were greeted with silence and tension from their fans. Disbelief is one thing, and tacit rejection of a struggling team another. Maybe a noisy Harvard crowd would not have stemmed the tide of Green goals that turned the game around, but then again, who knows? It wouldn't have hurt...
...Palestine Liberation Organization was taking part. At week's end Council members were still debating the precise wording of an Arab-sponsored resolution affirming the Palestinians' "inalienable national right" to a homeland. Although the draft resolution also advocated security guarantees for all states in the area-a tacit acknowledgement of Israel's right to exist-the U.S. was expected to veto the resolution when it comes to a vote early this week...
...this episode, Moynihan sidestepped a tacit understanding that Washington and Moscow would not attack each other by name...
...paper." Worse yet, the plan would have left the administration of Italy's biggest venture yet in economic planning to a ministerial committee on which the Socialists were not to be represented. The Socialists, in effect, complained that the Christian Democrats and the Communists had a tacit arrangement to run the country, which nevertheless allowed the Communists to avoid any responsibility or blame for things that might go wrong...
...Christian Democrats rejected the Socialist scenario immediately. They particularly objected to the demand that the Communists should formalize their tacit support of the government. Reason: it would fuel voter fears that the Christian Democrats were on the verge of accepting the compromesso stbrico-"the historic compromise" in which the Communists would come into government as partners of the Christian Democrats. Meanwhile, Communist Party Boss Berlinguer thinks that a public embrace would be premature, and perhaps might invite a right-wing backlash...