Word: overtly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cabinet member or even the President does not get his way simply by giving orders. Washington has seen many policies handed down from on high that were never put into effect. High-and middle-level bureaucrats can stall, thwart, water down or otherwise sabotage top decisions without any overt act that can be proved insubordinate...
Asked whether he thought the attack was an overt incident, Secretary of State Dulles replied, "We are trying to get further information about the details to determine what the circumstances were...
...policy of the Truman regime. However, "it may well be that the best thing we could do is sit tight, and let the forces which are at work in the Soviet system bring a crisis to the point of ripening. It is quite possible that if we take an overt foreign policy of moving into the disputed boarder-line countries at this time, this might have the effect of solidifying the Soviet bosses in opposition to an external enemy," he said...
Last week, on appeal the North Carolina state supreme court resoundingly reversed the lower-court conviction. Said the supreme court: even if Ingram had leered (which he denied), there had been "no overt act, no threat of violence ... We cannot convict him . . . solely for what may have been on his mind. Human law does not reach that...
Congressional committees have no place investigating teachers' opinions and past affiliations, except where overt acts against the government are concerned, he maintained. "A very considerable number of current teachers flirted with communism in the '30's, but later saw the error of their ways and got out." It's absurd to penalize people for this fleeting association in the past, he stated...