Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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With this news, even steelmen, who have been wrong about their 1960 prospects so often that they have lately maintained a discreet silence, felt more optimistic. U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough, who last October said that inventories would drop to the 11-12 million-ton level by November, reported in a letter to stockholders that inventories had reached "about the same level they were at the end of the 1959 strike, an estimated 10-11 million tons," and are not likely to undergo "any appreciable further cut. The prospect of an improved operating rate in steel seems much more...
Catholic authorities in the U.S. maintained a discreet silence about the controversy, but privately many felt that the Puerto Rican bishops had gone too far. Legally there was no doubt that the bishops were within their rights. The Vatican generally seemed to support the bishops, recalling that Pope Pius XII had declared it a sin to vote for the Communists in Italy's 1948 election (an edict that the Italian clergy was never able to enforce). Nevertheless there was room for argument and interpretation...
...which the Puerto Rican bishops belong. But 90% Catholic Puerto Rico, though a part of the U.S., has a Spanish-speaking population and Spanish traditions, and is considered by Rome and by the island's bishops a part of Latin America, where prelates are more active and less discreet in politics...
...sells for about $31. Harcourt, Brace stock first went on the market last summer at 23½, is selling at about 27. The stock of Scott, Foresman and Co., biggest publisher of elementary school texts, goes on sale this fall, and Boston's venerable Ginn & Co. is making discreet overtures in the same direction...
...circle. "An American editor told me recently how shocked he was to hear English reviewers speak with frivolous disrespect of a novel by a well-known colleague which, in their reviews, they had discussed at length and seriously." The gossip. Spender hazards, grows out of "a long tradition of discreet indiscretion, which is perhaps the virtue, or polite corruption, passed on by an upper class long used to revealing, and covering over, the misdemeanors of royal persons...