Word: latently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Vargas seized the presidency of Brazil in 1930, he had often promised elections, but never held them. He destroyed old political parties, prevented new from forming. But the latent opposition has recently shown new strength. One reason was the U.S. presidential election, which the newspapers reported in detail, to the open applause of the Brazilian people...
General Marshall came out flatly against a huge professional army. Such an army, said he, might be efficient, as it had been in Germany and Japan. But, he added: "Under such a system only the brawn of a people is developed for war [and not] the latent military leadership and genius of the people as a whole. It therefore has no place among the institutions of a modern democratic state based upon the conception of government by the people...
...took working bloody, two hours to do twelve miles and we came to the railhead. Thirty miles up ahead were Japs. It was six o'clock by the time we found billets in an old factory dormitory that smelled like an abandoned pigsty-the kind whose odors are latent but deep, and revive each time you kick over a stale pile of dirt. We lay sleepless through the night...
...Class of '45, the "Lucky Bag" offers itself as a focal point for unofficial announcements, reviews of current social trends, and anything else printable which occurs within and without the close confines of this naval station. All information is welcome. Latent writing talent is given complete coverage and informers the maximum of protection...
...Ottawa's plush red Senate chamber. Télésphore Damien Bouchard rose to make his maiden speech as a Senator from Quebec Province. His explosive subject: the not-so-latent hostility between French Quebec and the rest of Canada. Said he: "I still believe that a large majority of my compatriots love Canada as it is, constitutionally and otherwise, and do not want any change in their allegiance. . . . Their only wrongdoing is that they care too little about those who . . . are sabotaging our free institutions. The worms are gnawing at the tree of liberty...