Word: discreet
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...once genteel and discreet Concorde Lounge at London's Heathrow Airport seemed more like a room full of excited school kids just before they set off on a field trip. Usually rational adults were elbowing each other for prime position for photographs, and giddily downed one - or both - of the two kinds of free champagne being offered. They pointed and chatted excitedly, and no one could stop smiling. I was one of them...
...alone in Iraq, putting Ahmed Chalabi in power there or pretending that Yasser Arafat is not the Palestinian leader. These miscalculations have diminished America's military strength, its position in the world and perhaps its national security. Cheney has all the qualities this President admires. Cheney is tough, discreet, secure in his judgments-but he has been wrong too often, and now George W. Bush must decide what he wants to do about that...
...Singapore is not an entirely liberated city?yet. The city's gays?mostly diligent, discreet workers and students?were relieved by Goh's recent announcement and by the generally supportive readers' letters published in the Straits Times (even if there were some hardened homosexuality-is-a-sin exceptions). But the token coming-out story that the newspaper also printed revealed just how many gays were still in closets, even if they do risk a visit to the clubs on weekends. It is also notable that the new gay theater piece, Existence, to be presented next month by the Fun Stage...
...drama last week began with what the military calls a walk-in. Someone approached U.S. soldiers at a camp gate to volunteer information on the brothers' whereabouts. U.S. forces put a discreet cordon around the Mosul house, which is owned by Sheikh Nawaf al-Zaydan Mohammed, a member of Saddam's tribe. Shortly before 10 the next morning, a phalanx of Army humvees arrived at the house, blaring instructions in Arabic for those inside to come out. Witnesses say that moments after al-Zaydan and his son emerged, hands raised, gunfire erupted from the upper floor of the house. About...
...Iraqi sovereignty. His report backs the Bremer-appointed Governing Council as the only mechanism to pursue that goal right now, but urges that its scope and powers be expanded, and that Iraqis be given more opportunity to choose their own leaders. De Mello has already played a major, if discreet, role in helping Bremer create the Governing Council. He reportedly serves as an honest broker between Bremer and constituencies in and around Iraq to which he has no access because of suspicion and hostility towards the U.S. De Mello, for example, reportedly played the major role in persuading some...