Word: tacit
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...disagreement over policy within the Administration, President Eisenhower gave FRB and Martin his tacit support. Said Ike: "If it [the Federal Reserve] believes that money is getting too tight because of this, they will take measures to meet...
Taken by themselves, these evils might perhaps be survived. But what sends Mills's fever up is his conviction that he smells something-perhaps not a plot, but surely a tacit and cynical understanding among the big-corporation heads, the "warlords" and the "very rich" to take the country away from the common man. This is big; this is cold, naked power wielded by mindless giants who make life-and-death decisions without moral or intellectual regard for the consequences. Success no longer matters, because to achieve success today is to admit one's moral bankruptcy...
...identified with the record of indecision, inertia and total surrender compiled by Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson. On matters ranging from civil rights to the gas giveaway, Stevenson lowered his voice to the point of inaudibility; the effectiveness of his thrusts against the Administration has been dimmed by his tacit apologia for the Democratic record...
...bound to accept a prolonged state of coexistence with the Soviet Union, in fact if not by choice. Consequently, both the free nations and the Soviet bloc should seek to ease the tension to some degree; to relieve the strain and precariousness of an extended, perhaps indefinite period of tacit hostility; and to create, if not amiable relations, at least a Cold Peace not poised upon a sensitive trigger. Improved East-West trade relations, especially in United States-Soviet commerce, would be a large step in this direction...
...seniority tradition brought Eastland to the fore, and although that tacit rule is airtight in the great majority of cases, it has nevertheless been broken three times in the past. "It is my judgement that the present vacancy in the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee justifies making another exception to the seniority custom of the Senate," said Wayne Morse two weeks ago. The Senate did not agree with him. A different body, in a different age, might have acted in another...