Word: overt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University must make an effort, whether overt or subtle, to recognize students' right to exercise moral objection, especially when the University itself has already voiced a similar moral objection...
Critics, social and literary, have scrutinized Kerouac for the questionable quality of his work (Truman Capote once said of Kerouac's prose, "this isn't writing, this is typewriting"), his political conservatism and his overt sexism. But the movie sheds little light, favorable or negative, on any of the juicier topics...
Senior faculty members, however, were quick to point out that they knew of no overt cases of discrimination...
...these considerations were overshadowed in the public mind by relief that the 39 TWA hostages had been released without any overt deal or drastic military action. President Reagan's standings in the polls benefited immediately. An overwhelming three-quarters of the people questioned in a Washington Post/ABC News poll taken as the hostages were being released approved his handling of the crisis, even though 42% considered the outcome more of a victory for the terrorists than for the U.S. Presumably, many of those polled thought a different course would have had an even worse result. Private surveys conducted by Pollster...
...shop employee on Cape Cod, also revealed that John was seen retrieving $35,000 in cash that had been left for him in a garbage bag near Washington. The FBI kept John under continual surveillance for six months, patiently waiting for him to make an overt move. Finally, on May 19, they observed him staging a drop-off, similar to the one described by his ex- wife, in Maryland's Montgomery County...