Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What we are trying to do is put the overwhelming support for interhouse, until now only implicit, onto the record," Eric J. Tarini 71, the organizer of the petition drive, said yesterday. He said that he expects the petition to gain an additional 500 signatures today, the last day of the drive...
...little like being surrounded by dogs that are barking at you and baring their teeth." May said. After a long pause, Margolin said "Thank you." Then Heimert asked May to describe the nature of what Heimert called the demonstrators' "implicit threat...
...made Marooned raised a disturbing and fascinating problem: How can stranded astronauts be rescued in space? During the first half of their space saga, they exploit the mental -and national-tensions implicit in the plausible nightmare. Since the hardware and space-shot techniques resemble the real thing as seen on TV, there is an aura of verisimilitude about the mission. But the project is scrubbed after a disturbing word is flashed onscreen: Intermission. After that, Marooned rates about one-half out of a possible...
...begun rubbing her thighs, ever so subtly, yet intended obviously to prepare me. Not once had we even broached the subject of money or sex, the evident reason for my being there. She could have almost been a Wellesley girl on a first date, were it not for the implicit understanding we both shared, and a few tiny innuendoes...
COMMUNISM, in Buckley's thinking, was a clear and present danger against which all rightists should unite; and in that schema socialism was, in the hands of callow liberals, useful to communism. Unstated but implicit in such thinking was the assumption that communism was the major threat to human freedom, and that some sacrifices of freedom and comfort and safety were necessary to defeat the red menace. That which strengthened America, even if collectivist, could be rationalized as good; that which weakened America, even if fulfilling of individual freedom, was bad. Many Buckleyite conservatives held these beliefs, not necessarily...