Word: latently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There may be reasons which do not appear that keep Washington officials from making the most of it. One could be an unwillingness to engage in a game of bluff. Involved, too, it seems, is the inertia of bureaucracy, the latent fear of miscalculation, a belief that doing nothing is apt to be safer than doing something. In psychological warfare the imponderables predominate. However, that is not an argument for doing nothing, but for doing what needs to be done promptly, thoroughly, and effectively...
Tillich remains generally unaffected by all the praise he has received. "If someone charged him in public with having an intellect," Buttrick has said, "he'd be terribly embarrassed." His sense of humor usually remains latent, but it erupts perhaps once a month with some such example of quiet Tillichian humor as: "In Germany the parents bring up the child; in America the child brings up the parents. I moved from Germany to America, so I lose both ways." Or, there was the slightly irreverent remark that Tillich made after the death of an eminent religious philosopher: "Such a shame...
...Crimson, lacking the fullback keystone in its ground attack--all the more so after Oehmler was hurt--capitalized on passing, especially the latent serial talent of Walt Stahura. His in-spite-of-the-snow pitches to quarterback Joe Crehore, one of the most improved players on the team, provided at least a small boost to Harvard pride, already dampened by cold, snow, and the Yale team...
Donald Maclean was sandy-haired, tall, with great latent physical strength, but fat and rather flabby. Meeting him, one was conscious of both amiability and weakness. He did not seem a political animal but resembled the clever, helpless youth in a Huxley novel, an outsize Cherubino intent on amorous experience but too shy and clumsy to succeed. He sought refuge on the more impetuous and emancipated fringes of Bloomsbury and Chelsea...
...several holidays. Carefully coached by his counselors at Ryther, he rebuffed his mother when she tried to resume their wrestling. When she began to reject him in his new role, he faced a real, personal crisis: whether to please her and thus win back her love, or exert his latent masculinity...