Word: explicitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commission talked back. Britain's warning that commissioners could not be protected if they came before May 1, it said, was "not satisfactory." Chairman Karel Lisicky, of Czechoslovakia, was considerably more explicit: "Britain is responsible for law and order so long as the mandatory regime is there. If we come in before May 15 [when the mandate ends], they are directly responsible for our safety...
...explained that by next Wednesday the Executive Committee will have drafted the movement's explicit final statement of principles and would announce this together with sponsors and plan-of-action...
...Dachshund Howled." "The coming winter," said Protocol M in a message for Red operatives, "will be the decisive period in the history of the German working class. . . . This battle is ... for starting positions for the final struggle. . . ." Then the language became more explicit. Communist cadres would foment hunger demonstrations among factory workers to disrupt production. Transport workers would be prodded to tie up food distribution. The timetable charted general strikes for March, when stocks of fall potatoes would be running out and the Ruhr would be at its hungriest. "The Soviet Union," ran the assurance, "can and will support this...
...book out last week, called Poetics of Music (Harvard; $2.50), Igor Stravinsky tried to explain how he does write music. He found it hard to be explicit, but he did succeed in being unromantic. Wrote he: "This appetite [for composing] is not at all a fortuitous thing like inspiration, but as habitual and periodic ... as a natural need." Stravinsky prefers to call himself an inventor rather than a composer. "For the act of invention implies the necessity of a lucky find. ... A composer improvises aimlessly, the way an animal grubs about. . . . I suddenly stumble upon something unexpected. At the proper...
...rulebooks, for his first-stringers were, and still are, uninjured. With the guards and tackles playing an average of 58 minutes apiece, Hal Kopp's forward wall showed it "was fundamentally sound" as Harlow put it after the contest. Ed Finn, Brown's slick quarterback was more explicit on the subject asserting that he'd "never been hit so hard, especially by that guard Drvaric...