Word: explicitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second-Class Powers, Unite. In Stockholm a few days later he was more explicit. Said the Professor, in a casual appraisal of Britain's new world position calculated to drive Winston Churchill into his grave: "Not even America and Russia can live alone. Still less can second-class powers like Britain and Sweden. Why cannot the Foreign Ministers in the socialist Swedish and British Governments-and soon in the Norwegian and Danish-meet and draw up a program together?" By that time Danish Foreign Minister John Christmas Moeller and Norwegian Foreign Minister Trygve Lie were already in London, talking...
...Explicit Backing. The new Sino-Russian treaty in Chiang's pocket, dropped there by Premier Soong's masterly diplomacy in Moscow (and presumably by hardheaded Russian evaluation of Chinese Communist strength vis-a-vis Central Government strength), brought the "political solution" near realization...
...Explicit in it was Russian backing for the Central Government. Without hope of future help from their Soviet comrades, the Chinese Communists might well be forced to surrender their separate army and administration and take their place as one of several political minorities in a united China. Yenan was struggling against such an outcome, but its leaders could see the handwriting on the wall...
Bewitched (M.G.M.) is a double-personality melodrama with double-medium antecedents. Directed by radio's Arch Oboler, who adapted it from his own "best original air drama of 1938," the picture both gains and loses by its crossbreeding : the dialogue and sound track are so urgent and explicit, and what transpires on the screen so comparatively conventional, that you could get the whole show with your eyes shut. Even so, it makes a rather interesting movie. The story...
...start envoys on the way to Manila, where they would receive MacArthur's terms; and besides, they wanted him to spell everything out twice for "clarification." The consensus was that the Japs were stalling, and MacArthur curtly cut them off: "The directive from this headquarters is clear and explicit and is to be complied with without further delay...