Word: overtness
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...grievance (in this case government plans for sudden massive food price rises in June 1976) has had a continuing political spin-off. 40,000 letters of protest at a new clause in the Polish Consitution enshrining an 'inviolable fraternal bond' with the Soviet Union, linked with the covert and overt support from the Catholic Church for the WDC dissidents, has placed the regime on an uneasy defensive and proved a potent combination...
Half of America may writhe at the very mention of Miss America. But Christine knows that the other half will be watching her on TV that night, pleased by a familiar drama with its comforting suggestion, not entirely buried in unspoken sex and overt commerce, of a continual cycle of nurturing, of youth pliable and respectful, learning something, at least, from previous generations. The phone rings. It is Charles from Atlantic City. "Have you got your eyelashes on?" he asks...
...rightist Christian armies of Pierre Gemayel and Camille Chamoun, who have been engaged in a bloodletting feud with forces loyal to former Lebanese President Suleiman Franjieh, also a Christian. Although most observers believed that the supplies would be the only Israeli help, Damascus nonetheless warned that any overt intervention by Israel could mean a new Arab-Israeli...
John F. Kennedy was the first President to call for "affirmative steps," in Executive Order 10925, issued in 1961. With that measure barring job discrimination among contractors doing business with the Federal Government, Kennedy recognized that desegregation would take more than the mere absence of overt bias among contractors. So Washington told contractors on federal projects actively to recruit minorities and encourage their promotion...
Despite the increase in overt activity, membership in extreme rightist organizations, including those that are neo-Nazi and illegal, is well below the postwar 1959 high of 56,200. The extreme rightist National Democratic Party has only 9,000 adherents. Like the West German Communist Party, the N.P.D. is a legal political organization and a singularly ineffective one: in the 1976 general election, the party received only 122,000 votes out of 37.8 million cast...