Word: explicitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talking about political office," said George Marshall. "The popular conception that no matter what a man says he can be drafted as a candidate for some political office would be without any force and effect in regard to me. I never could be drafted. I am being explicit and emphatic in order to terminate once and for all any discussion of my name in connection with political matters...
...Atomic Bomb. In it Stimson disclosed that: 1) he, more than any other man, was responsible for the decision to wipe out Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 2) the two bombs dropped were the only ones which the U.S. had in store at the time. He made the record explicit and complete...
...experience in thinking out their personal or national philosophy. Meanwhile, our fellow citizens in the world community are very articulate, explicit, and definite in their plan of action. We don't like the way they have achieved that definiteness by indoctrination from the top of a totalitarian government, but we owe it to our fellow citizens and to our convictions to use our free method of education to accomplish a result which can match the well-though-dictatorially-formulated opposition. If we really have the truth, we ought to be able to express...
Former chapter chairman Richard G. Axt '47 declared, on the other hand, that there were "no valid grounds for failing to support National since, in the words of Charles Bolte, 'those statements merely confirm and make explicit what has always been implicit in ... the Preamble to our Constitution: that subservience to the principles of conspiratorial and undemocratic organizations is utterly incompatible with membership...
Perhaps, he conceded, the Athletic Association should have been more explicit last week when they revealed that the Yale game had been oversubscribed. Had the implications of that statement been made known, disappointment, he ventured, would not now be so wide spread...