Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither, Nor? The inevitable blow-up came in 1914 when Gide published The Vatican Cellars, in which he made his homosexuality explicit for the first time. The book brought a wrathful letter from Claudel: "If you are not a pederast, why have you so strange a predilection for this sort of subject? And if you are one, cure yourself, you unhappy man, and do not make a show of these abominations...
Congratulations on your clear, explicit write-up on Richard Nixon. There is very little-if anything-that his opponents will find in his career to criticize...
...Francisco speech last May, Stevenson was somewhat more explicit about what the U.S. might do in the conference room. He said: "We have had little discussion ... of the conditions for coexistence [with Russia] and probably will get little during the campaign. Unless and until Americans are prepared by prolonged public consideration of what it will be necessary to concede, negotiations may make little progress . . . There has been so much emphasis on ... showing a stern, tough face to the Russians that there has been little useful discussion of the bargaining alternatives...
After Duke (1937), Nixon practiced law in Whittier, and got a lot of divorce cases, to whose more explicit details he listened with acute embarrassment. He also taught Sunday school, joined the junior chamber of commerce, and acted in a Little Theater group. In Night of January 16, he played a district attorney opposite pretty Pat Ryan, a California redhead who, like Dick, had worked her way through college and was a teacher at the local high school. They were married in 1940. A month after Pearl Harbor, Nixon went to work for the OPA in Washington. Says...
...textbooks, McGuffey presented an ambitious package: reading material for children of all ages, a fine anthology of old favorites, and a stern, explicit code of morals. Before they finally faded from U.S. schools in the early 1900s, the six Eclectic Readers and the Eclectic Spelling Book (edited by Brother Alexander McGuffey) sold some 130 million copies, probably had more influence on U.S. literary tastes and moral standards than any other book except the Bible...