Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manning a picket line [March 8]. No matter how worthy are demands that educators be given professional status and their institutions increased respect and support, locking a child out of his classroom is an unconscionable act. The riddle of ends and means has become an old cliche, but its implicit moral dilemma is timeless and might serve well for teachers to ponder amid all that walking with lofty placards...
Only once did Nixon lose his footing. In Rhinelander, Wis., a TV interviewer asked him about Viet Nam. "This country cannot tolerate a long war," Nixon blurted. "The Asians have no respect for human lives. They don't care about body counts." The implicit racial slur invited attack, particularly against a candidate advocating vigorous prosecution...
...look for Khesanh offers limited encouragement, but the prospects for long-term avoidance of nukes in Vietnam are slim. General Wheeler said two weeks ago that he "doesn't think nuclear weapons will be necessary to defend Khesanh"; but implicit in that statement is the rationale that somewhere else the military might consider them necessary. And if the battle of Khesanh does not end the war, experts see two ways that the "necessary" time could come...
...legislative forays into the classroom and the fruitlessness of such an ex post facto inquiry are compelling reasons for the legislature to ignore approval of the measure by the Education Committee. Furthermore, the moral and legal problems involved in draft resistance are still far from solution, and the implicit condemnation of anti-war activity made in setting up this commission is biased and premature...
Wicker rushed down from New Hampshire, where he was covering the primary campaigns, to protest the outsider's appointment. Reston rushed up from Washington. Everyone now insists that resignations were never threatened, but the danger of losing Reston, Wicker and White House Correspondent Max Frankel was implicit. Top journalistic talent is hard to find these days, and the loss of such stars was too much to risk. Punch Sulzberger capitulated, agreed to reverse his decision. Greenfield resigned, shook hands all round and walked out of the Times without even bothering to clean out his desk. Behind him he left...