Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mitchell, testifying in his arrogant splendor, also expounded a doctrine of Nixon worship. Mitchell said that the President would have revealed the facts if he had known them and thus would have ruined his chances for re-election. If one overlooks the fact that both of the assumptions implicit in that statement are shaky ones at best, one sees a statement of a loyalty so lofty that it transcends all laws until it falls back on itself of its own weight, destroying both its bearer and its object...
Though the President's powers are not extensively spelled out in the Constitution, Wilson argued that there was an implicit presidential "reservoir of power with respect to foreign intelligence, foreign leaks, this sort of thing." That was inherent, for instance, in the President's sworn duty "to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution," Wilson said, adding the words of a Supreme Court decision: "Implicit in that duty is the power to protect our Government against those who would subvert or overthrow it by unlawful means...
...recalled that the last great trauma in the President's 1962 bestseller Six Crises was the Nixon-Kennedy campaign of 1960-of which he wrote: "Where an individual has carried on his shoulders the hopes of millions, he then faces his greatest test."* Based on the criteria implicit in the cases of the first six, the updated list might look like this...
...come to the city to make it big used to be made about tycoons and entrepreneurs. The rise of rock as the most dynamic mass art form has passed the heroic mantle from businessmen and badmen to rock stars. And rock has accentuated a theme which has always been implicit in the hero as desperado: a morbid fascination with living life as quickly as possible, with life only in the present, and pain collapsed into conclusive drama...
...they are an implicit answer to the Nixon Administration's assertion that its actions in the Watergate case have been motivated by "national security." It is an adroit defense, because the phrase is so vague as to defy easy definition and it appeals, after all, to valid national concerns...