Word: overtly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Question of Terror. Simultaneously in Cyprus and London, the British government issued a statement by Field Marshal Sir John Harding, Governor of Cyprus. Said Harding: "[I reached the] decision to order the archbishop's deportation in the light not only of his overt seditious activities, but also of a large volume of evidence indicating that the archbishop has himself been deeply implicated in the campaign of terrorism." Harding cited a recent "dastardly attempt" to sabotage a British plane carrying soldiers and their families. In substantiation of Harding's charge, British troops, searching the Makarios residence after the archbishop...
...first overt entrance into national politics came in 1924 when its convention passed a resolution backing Wisconsin's Senator Robert LaFollette who was running on a third-party, Progressive ticket. That same year, the AFL drew up a program for national legislation which contained many planks not connected directly with the labor movement. LaFollette's defeat convinced many of the Federation's leaders that Gompers was right after all, and that their organization entered national campaigns at the risk of getting its ears pinned back...
...grand jury listed 24 "overt acts" attributed to Schwimmer, Connelly and Caudle, many of them having to do with telephone conversations and personal conferences with one another. A key specification: that "on or about Jan. 14, 1952, Defendant Harry Schwimmer caused the sum of $1,650 to be paid to Defendant Matthew J. Connelly in Washington...
Last week, in Sumner's hot and hideous courthouse, the white community of Tallahatchie County came into conflict with the tradition of the law in the person of Circuit Judge Curtis M. Swango. In a way, both won. The immediate and overt victory went to the community. The law's victory was that so much of it survived in the face of blind hatred...
...conditions. Both the 'religionists' and the 'secularists' cherish the same basic values and organize their lives on the same fundamental assumptions." True Christian or Jewish witness, Herberg points out, may be "much more difficult under these conditions than when faith has to contend with overt and avowed unbelief...