Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told Republican colleagues that if the G.O.P. loses the House this year, he will step down as party leader. Massachusetts' Martin said flatly: "I will not be the minority leader again." His heir apparent as House Republican leader: Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck, present majority leader. Implicit in Martin's statement was a decision-if the Republicans lose control this fall-not to run for re-election to the House...
...French can pull their own troops out, and Viet Nam will have sovereignty almost comparable to that of British Commonwealth nations. At Geneva, this explanation continues, the French only want to find out China's terms for sealing off its border; the French have no intention of capitulating. Implicit in this explanation is the continuance of a certain kind of controlled and limited war. Ask either Vietnamese or Frenchmen whether large-scale American aid would be welcomed, and the usual answer is that such aid would turn Indo-China into another Korea. They define Korea as a greatly stepped...
...makes little difference that Mr. Dulles spent most of last week assuring Americans and our allies that international co-operation was "implicit in our defense system" and that there would be "prior consultation" among the allies before any retaliation. This consultation should have taken place when the "New Look" was initially planned, not after it was already heralded as the cornerstone of U.S. strategy. Now, when no single European state can make serious claim to the position of a major power, the United States must count on the combined effectiveness of a united Europe to wield a balance of power...
...There are grave risks about this," the Marshal of the R.A.F. concluded. "But terrible perils are implicit in the situation I am discussing...
...Burns ideas of economic principle and practice were implicit in every clause of the report. But Arthur Burns took the economic content as a professional matter of course; he expressed greater satisfaction in the report's style and readability. Says Burns: "I've always considered writing important. I went through all the stages that economists go through, from jargon to lucidity, and on the way I passed through the sesquipedalian* stage...