Word: latently
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...there were traits of his which, as one looks back on them, become significant. He had a force of personality which was latent and which subsequent occasions would call out. He liked people, and he made them instictively like him. Moreover, in his geniality there was a kind of frictionless command...
...Price-fixing," he said, ". . . discourages production and stimulates consumption, and the latent inflation may do more damage when it breaks out later than if it had been allowed to run its course in the first place . . . Price-fixing has always failed, from Diocletian* to Truman . . ." Free prices "provide the best method of stimulating production of the things that are really needed, and of restricting consumption of the things that are in short supply." To Leffingwell, frozen wages are no better than frozen prices: they "tend to retard the movement of men from nonessential to essential jobs ... I do not believe...
Your analysis of the public's sober mood about Korea [TIME, Aug. 14] is all bone and sinew, no fat. What's more, after much traveling lately, I feel sure it is in essence accurate. I think I detect in our country a fine latent dignity and seriousness which I was frankly not so sure of a few months...
...Malik could veto any Security Council action. To meet this possibility, the U.S. and other Western powers have planned with Trygve Lie to call an immediate meeting of the General Assembly if the Council is stymied by a Red veto. The Russians can also be relied on to exploit latent disagreements in the Western lineup, e.g., Britain, unlike the U.S., has recognized Red China and is logically committed to support its admission...
...very faint qualm that, in a student council not as efficient, flawless, and unimpeachable as this one, the adjectival polysyllabicism might possibly adumbrate the latent pomposity which would seem to be inherent in the mind which is attracted to microcosmic politics...