Word: latently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abolish war only through a revival of the same ethical spirit which lifted Europe from the Dark Ages. Said Schweitzer: "Man has become a superman . . . because he not only disposes of innate physical forces, but because he is in command, thanks to the conquests of science and technique, of latent forces in nature . . . The superman, in the measure that his power increases, becomes himself poorer and poorer. In order to avoid [atomic] destruction, he is obliged to hide himself underground like the beasts of the fields . . . [Lacking] superhuman reason . . . the more we become supermen, the more we become inhuman." Later...
...dropped out of it, leaving just the judge, lofty and bespectacled, a record, a dignified bunch of lawyers and some unimportant guy in the box." With these few dim figures, around a judge's bench, Levine brilliantly evokes an air of weirness and worry, weighted with wiles and latent threat...
Plot & Counterplot. General Hinh and his eager young army officers thought the times called for more vigorous measures in southern Viet Nam, on the model of Colonel Nasser's in Egypt, to save the country from Communists. Last week, suspecting a "latent plot" to overthrow his government. Premier Diem abruptly relieved Hinh as chief of staff and ordered him to leave Saigon on the Air France plane next day for Paris on "six months' leave." Enclosed was a ticket. Defiantly, Hinh called the airline, told the clerk to cancel the reservation. To Diem he explained : "There...
...writes of his new home town with the same purple pen he used to describe Eastern gin-mills for the New York Herald Tribune: "The saloons of Virginia City," he rhapsodizes, "then and now the drinkingest community in all the wide, wonderful, boozy world-what profligate enchantments were not latent in the mere roll call of their names, perfumed with intimate association and Old Noble Treble Crown Whiskey! There were Pat Lynch's Place, The Old Magnolia, The Smokery. Gentry & Crittenden's, and the Howling Wilderness, a premises which never at any hour of the 24 betrayed...
Festival judges denied that they had ever been deceived. They were always aware that some of the children on the festival stage were not singing, but they tolerated the practice of goldfishing because it enabled even tone-deaf children to share in the fun, and might eventually develop latent musical talent in some of the unpromising. There was also something to be said, perhaps, for the training in dramatics that the goldfish received. Reported one veteran chorister: "The ones who don't sing always have the most expression on their faces...