Word: tacitly
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...white vigilantes patrol the streets at night with clubs and revolvers. Last week Canadian and U.S. troops were ordered out on parade one day before the annual celebration of Emancipation Day, commemorating the freeing of Jamaican slaves in 1838. The marching troops were a tacit warning that Jamaican police are backed by armed forces...
...real reason, observers suspected, was that Thurman Arnold acts with the President's tacit approval. When labor gets uppity, the President slips the leash, and Arnold cuts loose with many a bark & bay. When labor is getting plenty of lumps everywhere else, Mr. Roosevelt hauls Arnold back to the doghouse for a spell...
...Government and the people had made a tacit covenant that no one should profiteer from...
...have heard about the pact. It is necessary only to look at the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange (lowest in seven years) to see that business as a whole is not profiteering. But there are always exceptions. Certainly no party to any non-profiteering covenant, written or tacit, was Jack & Heintz, Inc., of Bedford, Ohio, manufacturers of airplane starters...
...code undoubtedly left much to be desired. It went on the tacit assumption that any information given to the U.S. public was thereby given to the enemy. It did not make even a theoretical concession to the principle that news should be kept from getting out of the country (by peripheral censorship) so that the public at home can be allowed to have significant information. By making censorable all news of the progress of production it at least theoretically denied the public any chance to know and criticize if the President's arms program (60,000 planes...