Word: overt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy ROTC cadet enrolled at Harvard offered an alternative explanation: that the military wants to get rid of homosexuals in its ranks. And while top Pentagon officials may not have designed the new screening policy as an overt purge of homosexuals, we can not help but think that the unfounded homophobia associated with AIDS affected their deliberations...
...Although we haven't received any intelligencereports yet of possible overt terrorist acts, wealways have to keep it in the back of our minds,"said Johnson...
...rhythm (here a spot of comfort, there a moment of near unconscious cruelty). She avoids large explanations of Mona's fate, and any implication that political reform or therapeutic intervention might have saved her. And though Varda is clearly influenced by existential and modernist ideas, there is no overt reference to them either...
...what happens when the U.S. Government learns that two teenagers are making all that racket out there, has a gently realistic comic side. But it is also one of the most intelligent and gripping thrillers of recent years, a picture that transcends its WarGames genre (mainly because it avoids overt preaching and embraces humor) to set its own terms of endearment...
...vote was all the more remarkable for the lack of strong overt opposition to the missile deal by Washington's powerful pro-Israeli lobby. Even so, many lawmakers were fearful of supporting a measure that might offend Jewish voters in an election year and wanted to punish the Saudis for what legislators view as unfriendly acts, including muted criticism of the U.S. for its bombing raid on Libya. Said California Democrat Alan Cranston, who led the campaign in the Senate against the missile sale: "We should send the Saudis a signal that our friendship entails certain minimal obligations...