Word: implicit
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...leaders of Congress, despite the press of other business (see The Congress) were ready to expedite the debate and reach the decision. If they accepted George Marshall's military theory, then they must accept the political theory implicit in Harry Truman's speech: that the only defense of a respectable peace is a bold political attack...
...shattered the frozen patterns of historical determinism and materialism by again asserting God as an active force in history. His assertion, implicit throughout the 3,488 pages of A Study of History, implied another: the goal of history, however dimly sensed in human terms, is the Kingdom of God. That aspiration redeems history from being a futile tragedy of blood...
Although President Truman in his speech to the Congress last Wednesday failed to mention the Soviet Union by name, subsequent newspaper and Congressional comment has made explicit what was merely implicit in the lines of his address: the President was not asking the Congress to vote him $400,000,000 with which to aid Greece and Turkey in the ensuing fifteen months. He was asking that the United States embark upon a gigantic "containing operation" of the Soviet Union, a program whose vastness both in time and money dwarf completely the expenditure and time limit he cited...
Speaking before the fourth meeting of the Harvard Republican Open Forum on Wednesday evening in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, Alfred D. Simpson, assistant professor of Education, came out in favor of increased federal aid to education, although recognizing, the danger implicit in federal supervision...
What About Russia? Were the Anglo-Americans trying to establish an anti-Russian western economic and political bloc? The answer to that was "No, but-." The "no" lay in Anglo-U.S. policy, which for months has consistently favored joint four-power administration of Germany. The "but" was implicit in what would happen if the Russians (and the French) still refused to come in. The merger puts the U.S. and Britain in effective, working control of two-thirds of Germany's population, three-fourths of her industrial resources. Most top U.S. officials believe that the Soviet Union, left with...