Word: latently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many have said that the 'white backlash' was just a surfacing of latent feelings of hostility toward the Negro," New York's Senator Jacob Javits told an audience in Harlem. "I disagree. It was the sudden violence, the call to reverse racism, and the inconoclastic demagoguery of a few that have threatened and frightened the white community almost to the point where right and reason become secondary to visions about self-preservation...
Alfie. "Oi'm 'ere," says Alfie. "In the flesh." That's Alfie, dead to rights. Tall, blond and (barring a little latent acne) handsome, Alfie is a mildly repulsive sort of ponce charming from Eastcheap who can't be sure he's Don Juan until he's done...
...face, and old-style title cards flash a legend upon the screen: Alone with Her at Last-in a Room Full of Eggs. The eggs are part of a collection belonging to the young lady's cousin. The lovers are Michael Caine, a nincompoop medical student bursting with latent virility, and Nanette Newman, a delectable Victorian miss sustained largely by fantasies about the 300 helpless girls molested each year in London. He, confronted by the fleshly reality of The Girl He Worships from Afar, is moved to confess: "I have often had a burning desire to nod." She, overcome...
...That the Indianapolis torture-murder [May 6] was described in agonizing detail, and that I, and millions of others, ate up every gory word, attests to the latent sado-masochism in all of us: everyone is a latent Mrs. Baniszewski, who can experience pleasure in giving pain, or a Sylvia Likens, who can enjoy being burned, beaten and humiliated...
...process of "slowly involving Communist China in more patterns of international intercourse." Says Harvard's John Lindbeck: "One of our obligations as world citizens is to help the Chinese to become more sophisticated." Another Sinologist in his own right, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, speaks eloquently of a latent force that may be at work deep in the body of China as a modifying influence-"the pragmatic genius of the Chinese people." These are the people whom Americans have known and befriended for more than a century, in missionary, educational and trade relations and as allies in a great...