Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...councillors to retain office. Under Cambridge's proportional representation system of elections, a relatively small, but concentrated number of votes can swing an election. Given the City's poor record on constructing low-income housing in recent years, an organizing campaign for more low-income housing--with an implicit threat of action at the polls--might prove remarkably efficient in spurring the City Council to more vigorous support for housing...
That people exercise and warm up before a rehearsal does not seem very odd. Athletes do it all the time. But implicit in the kinds of exercises Cooper's cast has been doing is a concept of acting very different from what has often been common in the past. Perhaps it can best be called "gut" acting...
...applause at least six different times in response to statements made by the speakers in the film, the whites were noticeably silent and fidgety. As the main speakers in the film were Eldridge Cleaver, Stokeley Carmichael, and H. Rap Brown, the source of the applause--and the sentiment implicit in it--was not difficult to discover...
...them, but be more than proud to display them. (What housewife dares entrust to a maid, or even herself, the washing of a Ming plate or a Meissen cup?) Some private collectors are charmed by the nostalgia that exudes from an emblazoned baronial crest, enchanted by the social history implicit in a snuffbox and fascinated by the expertise needed to decipher the silversmith's hallmarks...
...impossible to do this all summer without feeling that you're pressuring people too much, that you're emphasizing the good and ignoring the bad. But then you realize that all the pressures, both implicit and explicit, lead the students to stay home for school...