Word: overtness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...problem arising out of Selma is a product not of the so-called denial of constitutional rights but of vote-greedy politicians, a warped, sensation-seeking press, and the immoral desire to pillory the South of certain groups of so-called reformers and overt agitators...
...enough-an overweight (6 ft. 2 in., 250 Ibs.) and overworked Air Force veteran who scratched out a living for his German-born wife and three kids by running a home fuel-oil delivery service. Last January, when Thompson was arrested by the FBI and charged with committing "13 overt acts of espionage" for the Russians between 1957 and 1963, the folks in Bay Shore were predictably surprised. Just as predictably, Thompson denied all. But last week he changed his mind, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, and blabbered his sordid little spy story to the press...
...year in which the Republican Party invaded the South and stayed there." But he also had a warning about the so-called "Southern strategy" that characterized the Goldwater campaign. In the future, he said, "our national strategy is not going to be based on a racist appeal, overt or covert, but on the economic conservatism of the Southern voter." And the G.O.P. must cultivate the Negro vote in the South. "You don't have to go down there and wave the Confederate flag," he said. "But we do have to take steps to see that Martin Luther King...
Good Soldier. The President will of course exert constant pressure on Congress, but will leave much of the overt maneuvering of members to House Majority Leader Albert. And Lyndon could scarcely ask for a better man on the Hill. Carl Albert is a fiercely competitive little man who was born to an Oklahoma coal miner, took his first schooling in a tiny woodstove-heated school at Bug Tussle (since renamed Flowery Mound). He worked his way through the University of Oklahoma, made the wrestling team, the debating team and produced a brilliant scholastic record in government, his major field...
...been more appropriately entitled, "The Failure of Mississippi". It represented a neat sleight of hand, putting Mississippi on the defensive in lieu of their usual offensive position. I must confess that my vision was blurred as I read about the "misunderstood (and) unjustly accused" state of Mississippi. Have the overt acts of violence committed by the citizens of this state been completely eclipsed by the gross injustices that have been done to Mississippians? Does the fault lie in others who haven't taken the time to inform themselves of Mississippian definitions of morality and "codes of conduct...