Word: overtly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court, the prosecution produced witness after witness to back up its charges that Provoo (rhymes with "no boo") had committed a long series of "overt acts" against his fellow prisoners after the fall of the Philippines. As they told their stories, the grim old names-Corregidor, the Malinta Tunnel, the Death March of Bataan-evoked bitter, half-forgotten memories of the painful days of U.S. humiliation and defeat...
...Nazi propaganda got more attention in the foreign press than it did in Germany. Even in Lower Saxony, where a quirk in the voting laws gives each registered voter three separate votes, only four overt Nazis, one of them Schepmann, were elected to office. Of 18 million votes cast in West Germany, neo-Nazi and right-wing radicals netted about...
...Middle East: The U.S. should call a conference of the Arab states to study '"tension, unrests and disagreements" in the area; should "make it crystal clear to all the world that any move toward Russian political, economic, or military domination in the Middle East, be it covert or overt, will not be tolerated...
...hill. Suddenly the officer fell flat on his face. The British and West Germans guffawed. The Russian glared, stood up and fell again as though it had all been a planned maneuver. The Westerners cheered. All that night the men on both sides remained at the alert for an overt move. It never came. Next day the Life Guards decided the Russians would not invade and rolled back to their barracks. The German frontier guards followed. The Communists climbed out of their foxholes and marched home. On the Soviet side the Vopos resumed their ceaseless patrols. On the West, farmers...
...well-being and security throughout the community, thus interesting the entire community in preservation of order and obviating the necessity of hiring a vast army of guards to protect his own pile. In both cases, the giver inevitably exercises a great deal of indirect influence, but when he tries overt dictation he provokes anguished cries from the beneficiaries...