Word: latent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...respect, the plague latent in the U.S. is a greater menace than that of China and medieval Europe. "Rat plague rises and falls within a century and finally flickers out. Wild rodent-sylvatic plague is everlasting and permanent" So said a leading U.S. plague expert. Dr. Karl F. Meyer of the University of California...
...credit side must be put at once . . . [Churchill's] fruitless efforts during the five [prewar] years, his Cassandra-cum-Jeremiah period. Secondly, was his 'into battle' period, when his superb rhetoric and unflinching courage focused like a burning glass the latent will to win of heroic, freedom-loving men the world over, when all seemed lost...
Just as dreams are the psychologist's cue to the structure of an individual personality, so rumor is a cue to the underlying morale of a nation. It reveals the conflicts, latent hostilities, wishes and fears of the people...
...political pattern of the hemisphere remains that of international anarchy." The Latin American countries distrust the Colossus of the North. There is a latent conflict between Argentina and Brazil, an other between Chile and Peru. There is the old grudge between the U.S. and Argentina...
Lampl has for steady helpers Art Hyman, Jean Benyas, and Margie Rice, the Radcliffe vocalist. At present the Association is looking for more of the latent talent which has gone "unnoticed", and with which it hopes to create good programs...