Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...implicit in all these issues was the crucial question: could the delicate balance of a "mixed" economy be maintained, or would "mixture" mean only confusion...
...would never accept the Adamic Plan-Two-Way Passage-or anything resembling it. The Churchill expression "was one of complex annoyance. ... He hadn't liked it at all. I was a bloody nuisance dragged in by F.D.R. and he had had to put up with me. This was implicit in his manner, integral with his whole personality. ... He muttered something I did not understand. His half-closed eyes squinted up at me, and he stuck the cigar into his face and pressed his back against the wall...
Harry Truman is not worried about George. He has "implicit confidence" in him. On the wall of George's office hangs a picture of the President which bears Harry Truman's accolade. The picture is inscribed in Harry Truman's angular hand: "My very best to a regular guy, my friend George Allen...
...expiation for horrors about which, as a member of the ruling class of my country, I felt a sense of guilt. . . . My decision to break with the Soviet regime-amounting to a personal declaration of war against that and all police-states-was not accidental. It was implicit in all I had been and thought and experienced. . . . To explain it I must rehearse my whole life and the life of Russia as it touched mine...
Dean Sperry's soft-voiced denunciation of non-liturgical sloppiness in the U.S.: "The Prayer Book, with its implicit pledge that . . . the offices shall be read decently and in order, is probably the greatest single source of attraction to non-Episcopalians. In the worship of the non-liturgical churches far too many of our transactions are accomplished in disorder, and occasionally approach aesthetic indecency. Popular taste in America has improved appreciably in recent years. . . . This improved taste penalizes churches, particularly in the great cities, which persist in the cults of ugliness, untidiness and sentimentalism...