Word: overtness
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...Things would be less difficult if the economy hadn't reared its ugly head with such force at this particular moment," Horner said. "We have overcome blatant and overt discrimination, but fighting in the job market is the only way to actualize...
...major sonata of Cesar Franck which concluded the program fared much better. It is a pleasant if somewhat syrupy work that continues the overt emotionalism of Liszt without any of the daring and grandeur that could make it any more than mediocre...
Throughout, the 50-page indictment handed up by the grand jury carefully refrains from citing any acts of the President. It sometimes even fails to note that a meeting singled out as an overt conspiratorial act was attended by Nixon and was held in his office, although his presence there is public knowledge. This is presumably part of the strategy of keeping the grand jury's report on Nixon thoroughly separate from the indictments, on the theory that Nixon's guilt or innocence ought constitutionally to be only the province of the House impeachment committee headed by New Jersey Democratic
...Overt Acts...
...defense lawyers, in future trials. Those curt recitations of specific acts for the first time detailed the chronology of an increasingly desperate effort to keep the lid on the scandal. Free of all the testimonial contradictions and denials that have so confused the complex affair, the indictment included these overt acts...