Word: overtly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recognition and maintain selfesteem. They were undisciplined and impatient, notably in their request for surgery. They particularly remembered childhood incidents supporting the idea that they had been female from birth. All, to some extent, were transvestites, i.e., desired to wear women's clothes. They struggled against all overt signs of masculinity; one even had his heavy, black beard burned out by electrolysis. Intense sexual conflicts, ranging from prudery to deep feelings of guilt, were evident in all of them. Said one: "It's all dirty. If I could have the operations and dress in feminine clothes...
Such force consists of U.S. sea and air power, now equipped with "new and powerful weapons of precision which can utterly destroy military targets without endangering unrelated civilian centers." Any overt Chinese Communist attack probably means that the Reds "have decided on general war in Asia." In that case, the free nations would retaliate from ''the south, center and north" (i.e., from Southeast Asia, Formosa and Korea...
Army: "The nuclear weapon," said the white paper, "may discourage overt armed intervention by the Communist powers, such as occurred in Korea . . . but equally, it may encourage the indirect approach through infiltration and subversion." Britain is creating a mobile strategic reserve, ready to be flown from England to any new threatened outpost. The total cost and size of the British army will be substantially reduced...
STEEL MERGER between Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. (TIME, Oct. 11) is still in the works despite strong Justice Department warnings that it violates antitrust laws. The companies intend to test the Government's objections in court. At the first overt move, such as a registration statement on stock changes with the SEC, the Justice Department will file a suit to stop the merger...
...tale of a bordello life full of genteel pretensions, and with far more high style than low instincts, has a nice rococo playfulness. Harold Arlen's score is attractive and unified, the songs delicate and unglib. About it all there hovers-despite no great amount of overt comedy-a sense of the humorous, and through it all move some excellent performers. Pearl Bailey can safely say almost anything, she looks so girlish, or do almost anything, she does it so gracefully. As the ingenue who finds love in such reputedly lustful surroundings, Diahann Carroll has a winning simplicity...