Word: explicitly
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Leland writes well. His prose, if occasionally too explicit, flows easily. We never find ourselves trudging through sentences or checking for antecedents, and we are even blessed by a few poetic passages. His desciption of an elderly patient's doctor is especially lyrical: "...he was just as she imagined Mrs. Voxburg's doctor would be, as blasted of history as Mrs. Voxburg herself, readable only in the broadest terms...
...sharply, in fact, that within three days the Kremlin began to hem and haw. Apparently concerned that Gorbachev's words might be interpreted as an explicit push for a single German state, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze told Soviet reporters that "it is not the idea of German unity itself but the revival of sinister shadows of the past" that raises alarm. He proposed that some way be found for the citizens of the Soviet Union, Europe, the U.S. and Canada to express their opinions on unification...
Every class admitted to Harvard contains approximately 20 percent legacy students--children of Harvard or Radcliffe graduates. This disproportionate figure, which has changed little since 1967, is the result of Harvard's explicit policy of giving preferential consideration to legacy applicants...
...main pillars of Hendrik Verwoerd's Grand Apartheid remain firmly in place, with no explicit commitment to remove them: the Population Registration Act still legally classifies people by race; the Group Areas Act still bars blacks from residing in most white neighborhoods or from sending their children to whites-only government schools; land acts dating back to 1913 and 1936 still reserve 87% of South Africa's land to whites, who today constitute 14% of the population...
Gorbachev was not explicit about what such a tragedy might be, but one of his closest political allies, fellow Politburo member Alexander N. Yakovlev, was quoted Monday as saying the Lithuanian party's move might cause a "domino effect," encouraging Communists in the country's other 14 republics to break off from Moscow...