Word: explicitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...therefore ask the German Reichstag for an explicit endorsement of my legal right to demand of everyone the discharge of his duties or to cashier anyone from his post or office if I consider that he has failed in his duty...
...Administration's experimental attitude. It is true that he admits "the developmental implications of the various measures fly off at tangents--often in contradiction to one another." But he tends to pass off this defect a little too lightly. He agrees that "we must adopt a more explicit plan," but he doesn't consider the possible conflicts between his deflation of ideals and the development of long-range objectives...
Sirs : Your partial listing of national private-welfare groups (TIME, April 21) is not up to your usual concise and explicit reporting or up to your usual extreme fairness to all religious groups...
...full meaning of this statement was made explicit last week by a New Zealand butter-&-egg man named William Goodfellow, who passed across the U.S. on his way to Britain. William Goodfellow, who is managing director of Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., of Auckland, stated that "about" 24 out of a fleet of 60 refrigerator ships which had plied from New Zealand to Britain via the Panama Canal had been sunk. Said Dairyman Goodfellow: "There are several million carcasses of mutton and lamb [in New Zealand warehouses] awaiting shipment. We also have an excess of 20,000 tons of butter-with...
...Still more explicit was another Irish-American-Bishop Joseph Patrick Hurley of St. Augustine-who served at the Vatican from 1934 through the first year of World War II. Last week Bishop Hurley became the first prelate to declare openly that Naziism ("that rampant paganism which has plunged a continent into tears and blood") has replaced Communism as Public Enemy No. 1 of the Roman Catholic Church. "The foe of all we love, both as Americans and as Catholics, is the Nazi," said Bishop Hurley. "Communism is still our enemy but ... in point of urgency if not in point...