Word: latently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time and again, in response to such questions from defense attorneys, Publisher Ralph Ginzburg and Editor Warren Boroson, of the now defunct magazine Fact, replied with an unqualified no. Both men insisted that their 1964 article depicting Barry Goldwater as a paranoiac, a latent homosexual and a latter-day Hitler, was simply fair comment on a presidential candidate's fitness for office (TIME, May 17). It was of no importance, they claimed, that only 20% of the psychiatrists they polled had even bothered to answer their admittedly loaded questionnaire. Nor did it matter that more than half of those...
...nation with any pretense to vitality can indefinitely be carried on the shoulders of one man. Either its sinews must atrophy or its restlessness erupt in the desire to walk on its own. The French are on their feet now, but swaying dangerously, reckless with the rediscovery of their latent powers...
...jailed for 15 days last winter after leading his union through a three-week citywide strike. At the state capitol, 500 lobbying teachers jammed the corridors. They argued that decentralization would in effect be turning the schools over to demagogues, warned that numerous lay boards might intensify latent racial and political conflicts in the city and give parents, rather than professionals, the right to dictate curriculums. "We don't like little districts," said Shanker. "Little districts can be taken over by little Hitlers...
While there is disagreement on the extent of overt racism, black athletes, like the rest of the black community, point to the university's failure to provide black culture courses as the main indication of Harvard's unwillingness to change. "This is latent racism," Stargel said...
...difference, of course, is that there is latent in the Poor People's demands, a threat of violence. But to associate the violence and the campaign is absurd. There will be violence this summer anyway; there will surely be blood and looting. The campaign was conceived as a way to provide a possible alternative to that violence, if only by making efficient political use of the threat of violence...