Word: overt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world charm," and recognized that "like many other good performers, he knows the understress is of more value than the bludgeon ... It is quite apparent, even through the charm, that he does not like the Communists, who go in not only for bickering, but for much more overt forms of opposition...
Since the Dean's Office believes too many freshmen's eyes popped during last year's campaigning, a committee of freshmen has been formed to rule on practices. Chairman Charles Cabot, Benjamin McDonald, and Charles Peterson must judge all posters and stunts. No "overt sex" is allowed...
...Life Has Been Cheap." For hours following the assassination, there was only stunned silence. Then Sternists were heard from: "We executed Bernadotte, who served as an overt agent of the British enemy . . . Such be the end of all enemies of Jewish freedom . . ." Said the Israel government: "Appalling crime . . . desecration of the Holy City . . . insane gunmen...
...Kinsey got off on the wrong foot, said Dr. Kubie, by making two wrong basic assumptions. "One is that the overt manifestations of sexual patterns are all that we need to know about human sexuality. The other ... is that where any behavior pattern is widespread ... it is superfluous to attempt to explain it ... The implication that because homosexuality is prevalent we must accept it as 'normal,' or as a happy and a healthy way of life, is wholly unwarranted...
...gone to Sarah Lawrence College, became interested in Marxism. No amount of argument or entreaty from her father had done any good. So far as he (and the FBI) knew, she was not a card-holding Communist. But when she took the Tass job, Virden had declared it an "overt act," and had refused to communicate with...