Word: overt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Overt Act. MacArthur's instructions were not to create any overt act. His planned strategy, in the event of attack, was to send his bombers over Formosa, the enemy's staging point. Sending the B-17s over Formosa would certainly be "overt." Were the Japs really making war, or was this another "mistake" like the Panay incident? Undetected, Jap bombers soared over Clark Field. When they had gone, the Far East Air Force's main airdrome was a wreckage. Half of Major General Lewis H. Brereton's bomber force had been destroyed...
...Sedition is defined as inciting resistance to lawful authority. It falls short of treason, which involves an overt...
...group known as the Socialist Workers Party. On the march they were led, as always, by volatile Vincent R. Dunne, ardent Trotzkyite,onetime head of Minneapolis' volatile Local 544 of the A.F. of L. Teamsters Union. Two years ago they were convicted of sedition, not because of any overt act, but because they believe in the proletarian revolution...
...speaking out, Winston Churchill took his first overt role in U.S. politics. But willy-nilly, silent or not, Churchill has long been a potent force in U.S. politics. His unquestioned popularity in the U.S. has led many observers to consider him the President's No. 1 political asset. But for that part of the U.S. public which sees John Bull under beds, he may well turn out to be the President's No. 1 political debit...
...first overt act by Germany against the U.S. in World War II was the torpedoing of the freighter Robin Moor, six months before Pearl Harbor. The sinking brought a burning rebuke from Franklin Roosevelt, touched off new verbal skyrockets in the already explosive isolationist-interventionist debate. North Dakota's Senator Nye "guessed" that the British had sunk her-then hastily retracted. For obvious reasons, Germany kept...