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Word: overtly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that my arrest has been a "big headache" for the U.S. State Department because "Latin Americans . . . would unfailingly interpret it as overt U.S. support of Strongman Batista." If the policy which seems to have dictated my arrest is continued, however, this "headache" will prove indeed to be a very minor one-not only for the State Department, but for the American people. They may awake one day to realize that the support of corrupt, bloody and hated dictators like Batista, who ran on a Communist "popular front" in 1940, supported a Communist coalition in 1944, and was elected largely with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1954 | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

Though homosexuality may have its origin in early childhood, it is generally not until the beginning of adolescence that a boy gives overt signs of it. At this stage, responsibility lies most heavily upon the parents. They need to know that in every human personality there are both masculine and feminine traits, and that puberty, being a time of great stress and adjustment, is also a time for experimentation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Hidden Problem | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...State Department, the whole affair was a big headache. No matter how indiscreetly Prío had behaved, Latin Americans from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego would unfailingly interpret his arrest as overt U.S. support of Strongman Batista...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Under Arrest | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...same routine was repeated in the spring of 1952. But last June. Penelope seemed to be in a more sociable mood. When she scratched timidly at the wooden barrier that separated her from Cecil, the curators happily lifted Cecil over the barrier. Nothing overt was observed, but Penelope was no longer evasive and the two platypuses seemed to get along nicely. When the curators provided her with eucalyptus leaves. Penelope took them into the burrow. Since wild platypuses make their breeding nests out of just such leaves, the curators grew hopeful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Penelope's Secret | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...some sort of civil right deniable only by judicial process. But innocence of crimes is but one of the qualifications for a position of honor and trust. He also insists that one who is a member of and recruiter for the Communist party--and these are not lease but overt sets--will net use what influence and experience he can got from positions like editorship of the Review to harm to the future the legal profession. This view grows more patently naive with each year of the Cold War. We borrowed the term "Communist-dominated" not from McCarthy, but from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of Lubell's Letter | 10/15/1953 | See Source »

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