Word: latently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Then come the claimants -for example, the builder. If he runs into "latent defects," such as hidden springs, the builder is entitled to charge more than the contract calls for. If the owner fails to pay on time, the builder may also force public sale of the pool, a move that can conceivably result in the owner's losing his property as well as his pool...
...pique did not nearly explain the emotional scene in the Cow Palace. That scene's significance lay in the far-reaching fact that in many areas of the U.S. a latent suspicion that the press is sometimes unfair has hardened into a belief that, especially in matters of politics, it is partisan and untrustworthy. To almost all Goldwater's admirers, the press represents the "Eastern establishment" that is out to get Barry. They think primarily of press, radio and television and its influential New York-Washington base; newsmen are viewed as liberals who distort Goldwater's views...
...prejudices of which we are secretly ashamed. This will be a campaign to sicken decent and thoughtful people, and the bitterness it will distill will linger long in our national life." The Chicago Daily News found that "for the zealots," Goldwater "has the invaluable ability to give a latent, fear-born prejudice a patina of respectability and plausibility." To the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "The Goldwater coalition is a coalition of Southern racists, county-seat conservatives, desert rightist radicals and suburban backlashers...
...plays to Mrs. Maleprop, Ebenezer Scrooge, and Christopher Newman, Levin pointed out that Shakespeare's Mistress Quickly ("quick lie") is part of a living tradition. He admitted, however, that "with he increase of realism and the decline of allegory, there is a tendency to leave the meaning a bit latent...
Scholarship is not essential to the teacher of skills or the teacher "dedicated to bringing forth in a student the latent critical, creative, or appreciative powers," Sayre contended. "Only in predominantly informational teaching is research into new areas and new knowledge a prime requisite of the excellent professor...