Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout the book runs the echo of the new era, recalling the sky-splitting trajectory of a jet plane that catches Sam's eye at the opening of the story. The choice between destruction and survival is implicit even in the work of the foundation, which divides its time between charity for true education and the preparation of the Disaster Clinic for a possible holocaust. And Morrison suggests that as time runs out for men, so it may run out for our civilization, unnoticed until too late. But for all this, the education of Sam Norris ends...
Cutback. What Thompson's move 'did mean was that he had finally been able to win what Texas independents want-promise of a cut in crude imports (now some 820,000 bbl. daily), giving Texas a bigger share of the domestic market. That ambition had been implicit in Thompson's Washington testimony. The way to supply Europe was not to increase production, he said, but to make major refiners cut back imports of Venezuelan crude, ship it direct to Europe...
...plugged with "Beaumont Egg," a sort of crude metal paste. For once the public had found the right scapegoat. Bouch died soon afterwards, a ruined, bitter, ostracized man; his widow took to drink and married a sea captain. Authors Prebble and Kendrick both flatter the modern reader with their implicit assumption that this is a more enlightened age-but there is room for doubt. When Lisbon's walls came tumbling down, 18th century man sought a theological explanation. When a gale destroyed the Tay Bridge. Victorian England found a mechanical cause. Yet each found it natural to make...
...declared Attorney Victor Berrange. "will seek to show that these prosecutions . . . are for the purpose of testing the political breeze to determine how far the originators [of the trial] can go in their attempts to stifle free speech, criticism of government policies and all that the accused believe is implicit in their definition of the often misused word 'democracy.' ... A battle of ideas has indeed been started in our country...
...feel that he continues to react to political situations as the academician that he is. "He seems to act with the sense of knowing best," one commentator remarked, "--a kind of vocation to set an incompetant world to rights." This drive to set the world at rights is perhaps implicit in his Socialist creed, but Gaitskell's interpretation of party cant bears the imprint of a man looking for an up-to-date, intellectually solid synthesis. his own words, defining what he sees as the evils of capitalism, illuminate the original approach of Hugh Gaitskell to socialism. "The three evils...