Word: tacitly
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...however, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer revealed that the two countries have ever since been living a convenient lie. In an interview with Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun, Reischauer asserted that U.S. naval vessels carrying nuclear weapons have routinely visited Japanese ports-with Tokyo's tacit approval...
...since 1973 had Israel and Syria seemed so close to war. The delicate, tacit "red line" of understanding that has long kept Israel and Syria at arm's length in Lebanon had been dangerously violated...
...half because an unintentional influx one year was causing its prestige to flag; about what an ICC president told one of them privately and with a certain sadness one day, that "anti-Semitism in the clubs is something that can neither be exposed, nor proved, nor cured"; about the tacit and explicit demands of club alumni through the graduate boards that, though a few Jews may be admitted to every club, "they must be kept down to reasonable numbers" and that is why Prospect has so many Jews; about what a club representative had just told one of them quite...
...thought it was Seven Days in May. Al didn't do it right, and it's going to hurt him." At week's end a new controversy threatened to erupt when it was learned that Haig, without properly consulting other Cabinet members, had given the French tacit approval to sell 600,000 tons of wheat to the Soviets. The White House attempted to play down the incident in the hope that it would blow over, but talk continued to float around Washington that Haig might resign, and that the White House was already looking for a successor...
...United States in coming months will be limited. To cut off aid to the reformist government would be to disillusion many of its present supporters who would turn to the left should promises for reform go unfulfilled. Yet for the Reagan administration to continue support would be to give tacit approval for the violation of human rights. Whatever the outcome in the next four years, support to El Salvador under the Carter administration should be recognized as an effort toward ending political extremism in Central America. The policy decisions were not always perfect, no policy could please everyone under...