Word: overtness
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...carry out the conspiracy, the Weathermen allegedly traveled around the U.S. with false identities, using coded messages, to get the guns and explosives they needed. Although the indictment cited 21 overt acts furthering the conspiracy, no actual bombing was charged. Federal officials said that there was an attempt to blow up the Detroit police officers' association building, but the bomb never went...
...grand jury was determined to press the case against Frenkil. The jurors prepared a presentment that named Frenkil and half a dozen present and former Congressmen, including Long and Boggs, and cited 45 overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy. Submitting it to the judge, they asked that it be made public. Their action precipitated a panic. Lawyers for Frenkil and others, claiming only to represent "John Doe, Peter Poe and Richard Roe, et al.," petitioned the court to prevent publication of the document, which they felt would damage their clients. In response, Federal District Judge Roszel Thornsen steered...
...often carry?or wear?the flag with a studied, shocking irreverence, a theatrical impulse common enough to the young in any period but skillfully developed now by the example of such public relations geniuses as Abbie Hoffman. Some, of course, costume themselves in the Stars and Stripes with no overt political intent. But however faddish the flag fashions are, they implicitly contain a put-on or a flare of adolescent rebellion. "Desecrating the flag is just fun," explains Beth Spencer, 21, of Berkeley. "It's burned, torn or worn for the sheer joy of doing something naughty and getting away...
Testing showed significant psychological differences be tween long and short sleep ers. The shorts tended to be conformist and emo tionally stable: "a successful and relatively healthy bunch with very little overt psy-chopathology," says Hart mann. "Their entire life style involved keeping busy and avoiding psychological problems rather than facing them." They also awakened seldom during the night and arose in the morning refreshed and ready...
...mutiny, but there is deep malaise and disarray in the Government of Richard Nixon. Sullen resentment and overt bickering compound the dreariness of Washington's labyrinthine bureaucratic corridors. Cambodia and Kent State, the slumping economy and the rhetoric of Spiro Agnew have divided the nation and split the Government. In the capital, a loss of confidence in presidential leadership plagues clerks and Cabinet members alike. And it is unfolding against a tumultuous background of challenge to Richard Nixon from the Congress of the United States...