Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still had the support of the military establishment. Inside the heavily guarded camp, where she is expected to stay for at least 45 days, she began a routine of long walks in the Argentine spring sunshine, playing golf and watching what one Buenos Aires daily described as a "discreet number" of old TV cartoons that had been sent to the camp at her request...
...most part, he tends to downplay the criticisms of his actions. In the past year, two long-time department heads--John B. Butler in Personnel and C. Graham Hurlburt in Food Services--have been shuffled into new positions by Hall in what several observers have characterized as a discreet effort to "put them out to pasture because they were not team players." In July 1974, Hurlburt was moved to a new position as director of administrative services, a post which, although listed on Hall's organizational chart as a supervisory position for Food Services and three other departments, seems more...
Instead the process is kept "collegial." When a search committee is interested in a professor, it begins an elaborate game of cat and mouse to find out if he's "moveable." They make discreet inquiries to some of his friends or approach him informally...
...interviewer apparently felt obliged to inquire what answer she had prepared, which enabled Mrs. Ford to say, "As often as possible." An idle imagination could perhaps conceive still further questions-all in the name of candor-but it may be hoped that the press will now lapse into a discreet silence. And that the First Family will not misinterpret the lack of embarrassing questions as a mandate to answer them anyway. If candor at all costs is to become the supreme policy, there are a number of more important areas to which it might more usefully be applied...
Judy Collins and Livingston Taylor. Liv is higher-pitched than his brother, though fortunately not as high-strung. He can be seen frequently at the People's Bank--Coolidge--standing in line like one of the, um, people, although a discreet peek at the blue paper in his skinny hand reveals that he may be closer to the corpulent and feline species. Anyway, he banks there, and his concerts are really pleasant--he's charming, sings funny songs, and has a good amateurish style. And his feel for the North Carolina whence the Taylors come (oh, alright, Chapel Hill...