Word: overt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other hand suppose the submarine gets near enough to discharge a torpedo or a gun if the vessel is thereby sunk, that is the overt act for which the United States has been waiting. If there is any opportunity, our armed ship presumably will reply and war would begin then and there; but in this case demonstrably by the act of the Germans...
...recently pointed out in these columns that democratic patriots should think for their country before they fight for it. The Harvard Union for American Neutrality now wishes to suggest some of the issues which must be thought out. For the fact of an overt act does not lead straight to a duty to fight Germany...