Word: tacitly
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...There seemed to be a tacit agreement between the City and Harvard to overlook it since no hard liquor was sold," one tutor said...
...tendered, even if he had to switch to the Republican Party. He might have the support of Johnson, who is bitter about the strong antiwar positions of almost all the potential Democratic candidates. Johnson is known to believe that Connally will run with Nixon. The former President could give tacit approval to a Nixon-Connally ticket by sitting out the election and letting Texas' 26 electoral votes fall to the Republicans...
General Motors has mainly stayed out of the debate. In Washington, G.M.'s present silence is taken to indicate a tacit acceptance of the air-bag scheme. Nonetheless, last week's court action will probably serve as a safety cushion between the other recalcitrant automakers and the insistent Transportation Department. The automakers will eventually install air bags, which seem to be the most sensible safety device yet proposed, but they clearly need more time to perfect the bags. Twice before, the deadlines for installing air bags in cars have been postponed. Another delay now seems likely...
Although about 2,000,000 of Mexico City's 9,000,000 inhabitants live in squalor, one out of every four of them has risen above the crime, noise and filth of street shanties. They occupy, with the city's tacit approval, hovels that they build on the flat roofs of solid buildings. While these penthouse poor prefer the roofs of small, low structures (where limited space holds fewer families and gives greater privacy), they gladly share the tops of taller buildings with each other, humming elevator equipment, water tanks and thickets of TV antennae...
...Buddies. In her eight months in the House, she has made that presence felt with a characteristic indifference to protocol, notably the tacit understanding that a freshman Congressman ranks slightly above a page boy. It is already part of Capitol Hill mythology that when the courtly House doorkeeper, Mississippian William ("Fish Bait") Miller, asked her not to wear one of her trademark broadbrim hats onto the House floor, she briskly replied, "Go f -yourself." Actually, Fish Bait says, the exchange was jocular; they are "big buddies...