Word: explicit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replied (in a form letter): "Before we can be of assistance to you, we will need more explicit details...
American officials shold secure from the Kremlin an explicit statement of whatever grants of territory or control Russia considers necessary to her safety and with which she will feel no need for further guarantees or concessions. They should also realize that our international manuevers are not seen by the Russians in the same light by which we view them, and that Russia is entitled to a forthright exposition of our aims and intentions...
...religions with which the brotherhood would lead the postatomic world, "Archbishop" Doreal took care last week to be as misty as the distant Himalayas. Said he: "Our foundation is Christian, but our interpretation differs from that of the orthodox groups. . . . We're reasonable people, not fanatics." His most explicit expression of faith: "I am a Republican...
...Road to Christ. "To make this tendency explicit is the only road to one more invigoration of the faith; for that road leads back to the parables of the Lord and the Sermon on the Mount, where one is again among elemental and universal things, as one is not when engaged with the sacrificial ideas and Messianic hopes of Judaism, that were incorporated into the Gospel...
...Georges Bidault approved the Byrnes plan in principle, but Russia's Viacheslav Molotov promptly countered that before he discussed a treaty to assure Germany's disarmament he would have to know just how far Germany had been disarmed. Tass, the Soviet news agency, was more explicit. It asked whether all Nazi military units had been "really dispersed" in the British zone and said that U.S. authorities, "for some reason or other," had let the Germans keep secret war enterprises...