"tacit silence"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Oct 16, 2006, at 5:35 AM, Dan Lassiter wrote:

> An headline from this weekend's New York Times:
>
> "Tacit silence on stem cell research in Missouri race" (I may have
> the end a
> bit wrong, but the tacit silence bit is the point)
>
> I got only 543 google hits for "tacit silence", not all of them
> real and
> mostly from blogs etc. Has anyone run into "tacit" in this meaning
> in a
> major source before?

what *is* the intended meaning here?

arnold

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