Word: overt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last month we received a request from Ann Mulville, of Norfolk, Conn., for whatever information we might have on Salvatore Giuliano, Sicily's most renowned present-day bandit, who has achieved an international reputation for, among other overt acts, robbing the rich for the benefit of the poor. Miss Mulville explained: "We are having a mock trial of the case in our seventh grade at school, and I am the district attorney...
...enveloping atmosphere of fear and hysteria, teachers, a timid lot under any circumstances, have become more timorous still. There are no overt threats to academic freedom, but campus liberals are less outspoken, more cautious and retiring...
...Crimson threesome at Princeton successfully declared that adopting guilt by association is invalid. Persons, must be convicted on overt acts, not on their beliefs, it held...
...Griswold commission said charges that Dr. Van Waters' administration had mishandled homosexuality in the reformatory were "wholly unproved." "In the very few instances where overt acts of homosexuality occurred ... prompt and effective steps were taken," the report stated...
...began six days later in a highly partisan atmosphere. Dr. Van Waters was applauded each time she entered the auditorium in the State House; McDowell was frequently hissed. The charges trotted out by the prosecution were staggering, but the evidence introduced was not. The prosecutors brought up only three overt instances of homosexuality; two of these were never reported to responsible officials. The third instance was handled quickly and with the best psychiatric advice...