Word: tacitly
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...could risk on a first novel, used to brag in their ads if any first novel topped that figure. Now first novels like Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend and John Hersey's A Bell For Adano have both sold nearly 35,000 copies. Most publishers, by tacit agreement, have stopped using sales figures in advertising because, with the Government stressing the paper shortage, big printings might be misunderstood...
...barely recognizes the value of the Supreme Court as a repository of what might be termed "sleeping" power. By the very fact of its existence the Court compels Congress to be careful of the phraseology of bills. And in a federal system, a Supreme Court is necessary as a tacit reminder to keep the legislatures of the 48 States from nullifying the powers of the Government in Washington. Conversely, a Supreme Court is also needed to protect the 48 States against overriding federal law. Professor Commager assumes that State legislatures will not do radically unconstitutional things, though he admits that...
Postponement must have been a large word in Moscow; practically none of the difficult, specific and all-important mechanics for applying the adopted principles had been announced or, apparently, worked out. But in some instances "postponement" must have been the essence of tacit agreement-for example, on the question of Russia's border provinces...
...Guns. This is just what Professor Salvemini, a Mazzini republican of the old school,† is afraid of. Like many Britons and Americans, he believes that a social upheaval will result from the invasion of Italy. He fears that Roosevelt, Churchill, the Vatican and many Italian reactionaries are in tacit agreement to check this social revolution by keeping intact the machinery of the Fascist state and local administrators. This requires that the Italian army "remain faithful to the Monarchy and to its own chiefs, so that it will not hesitate to machine-gun the rebels...
...apparently looked the other way. The press, with the exception of the Daily News and Hollywood Citizen-News, helped whip up the mob spirit. And Los Angeles, apparently unaware that it was spawning the ugliest brand of mob action since the coolie race riots of the 1870s, gave its tacit approval...