Word: tacitly
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...decline in the standards of the examination itself is planned. Non-honors candidates will simply be asked to answer two of three questions, while honors men will answer them all. Which is a tacit admission that they will be expected to know only two-thirds as much as they once had to Lacking the money to re-institute the ante-bellum miracle of full tutorial, the English Department is at least making sure that its huge enrollment gets an organic grasp of the chopped-up area. For this reason the members of the Department can feel that they made...
...Deck. As the U.S. prepared to make its historic move, a potent group of U.S. oil companies also came to a historic decision. With the tacit approval of the U.S. and British Governments, the companies concluded a series of deals - biggest ever made in the blue-chip game - to develop and put to full use this ocean...
...expansion of Russia, whether czarist or communist, in the direction of the Dardanelles. Since shortly after the end of World War II, British troops have been stationed in Greece, ostensibly to "see that democracy is reestablished." If her historic policy in the Mediterranean is insufficient proof, then her tacit approval of the present corrupt reactionary Tsoldaris government demonstrates that the first intention of the British government is to halt the Russians rather than to bring democracy to the lower Balkans. The British appeal to the United States for active aid in Greece is impelled by her desire...
...within both the Communists and the Kuomintang must stop the struggle between extremists of both parties, the rapid withdrawal of American troops servicing the Peiping Headquarters of the Marshall mission, is tantamount to announcing that further American intervention will merely compromise their efforts. Pulling out now is only a tacit admission of what the Communists have claimed all along, that the U. S. troops were not to help in mediation, but to spearhead the Kuomintang "forces of reaction." The charge will be all the more difficult to meet because some elements within the Kuomintang themselves triumphantly voiced the same opinion...
...there is "gastric plastic"-soft, slow stuff; for the last hour the show gets hot with blues, boogie, chamber-music jazz, and jazz antiques. And at 9 p.m., when the last "fetching etching" has been sent, Robbins dreamily concludes: "This is your professor of thermodynamics taking a tacit for 24. We're clearing the joint of counterpoint, but we'll be back next black at 18:30. So have the body by the voice box, will ya? Keep ya chin up, good will toward men, and here's cookin...