Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sallal refused to take Nasser's advice; moreover, he declined to heed the implicit warning. Instead of returning home to fight for his job, he flew off to Baghdad, hoping to round up support from other Arab Socialist friends. Hardly had his plane left the runway of Cairo Airport, when Nasser fired off a cable to the Yemeni capital at San'a. The cable did not actually tell the Republican army to overthrow Sallal, but it instructed Egyptian troops still in Yemen not to block a coup-just in case the army might be planning...
...opponent, Kevin White has not staged a particularly distinguished campaign, never transcending the anonymity of being simply the good man running against Hicks. He has hedged on the question of racial busing, failing to match the implicit bigotry of Mrs. Hicks' adulation for the neighborhood school with an explicit promise of rapid racial balance for the Boston system...
...unrewarded labor. Unable to predict his next reaction, confused about the painful progression of his feelings, trying even to be honest even about his dishonesty--"for poets are eigned to lie, and I / For you a liar am a thousand times." Perhaps his most significant lie is the most implicit: he assumes the continued intensity of his love for Lise, judges his victory by the extent of her involvement in the affair. He succeeds, of course, in enticing her fully into skulking love: but then he discovers he must have her complete fidelity, which she apparently grants. Perhaps we should...
...action was taken on Cooney's proposal. Several HUC members said after the meeting was adjourned that they felt denial of complicity in civil disobedience "was implicit" in the proposal they accepted for House-wide discussions...
...reporter and ideally as a shaper of opinion at Harvard is obviously none of my business--though I am entitled to my own views about the effect on thoughtful readers of this sort of rhetorical overkill. What does concern me is the possible distortion of motives and effects implicit in your discussion of last week's visit to Washington by fifteen members of this Faculty...