Word: overtness
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...technique has upset civil libertarians, to say nothing of pimps, prostitutes and customers. Legal critics scent illegal entrapment. However, the policewomen have refined their techniques to avoid any overt welcome save their dress and location, and seventeen patrons have been convicted under a statute that makes solicitors liable for a $250 fine or 90 days in jail or both...
...Nixon trying to kill the voting rights act of '65, the Moynihan letter, trying to curb the beneficial work foundations have done among poor people, trying to reverse the very slow process of desegregation ordered by the Supreme Court in 1954. This is giving rise to overt acts of racism, like attacking school buses...
...change possible. "... Maybe those whites were just saying... that they wanted desperately a feeling of being important, of being something, and racism remained the pitiful core of an old bundle of corrupt, totally dishonest political oratory which gave them that feeling." The great danger to Watters is not the overt racist like George Wallace, but the "moderates." like Claude Kirk or Howard "Bo" Callaway who hide their racism behind a cloud of conciliatory rhetoric...
Pressure on the HarBus to be nothing more than a sandwich of advertisements and press releases is not something new. But the scene of the pressure has changed and the level has escalated, from a subtle phone call and intimidation in a student room to overt theft. When the old proprietorship tried last month to publish a mediocre expose of the Business. Assistance Program (BAP)-a student consulting service to Roxbury businesses-the paper's editor was telephoned by the associate dean and harangued in his own room by five black students. The result was delaying the BAP story...
...version of the crucial paragraph accepts all of Hughes' objections. The suggestion that administrative errors may be "as damaging as some of the more overt violations" has been removed; that clause now reads. "Failures to meet these responsibilities may be profoundly damaging to the life of the University...