Word: overtness
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...Kennedys are a resourceful clan; they faced West Virginia and Wisconsin and won. But New York may well prove different. Already reporters follow Robert Kennedy everywhere, attempting to unearth secret meetings with English, Buckley, and other party bossses. An overt Kennedy move will be news, and New Yorkers may well defeat in 1966 any obvious attempt to use their state to gain the presidency...
...women, who, Barzini concedes, "are now more disturbingly beautiful than they have ever been," with "harmonious behinds like double mandolins"; foreign women often find Italian men irresistible in their "charm, skill, lack of scruples, and boldness." Many return, captivated by the gaiety, warmth and apparent candor that are the overt features of the Italian national character...
Humphrey, of course, badly wanted the job, but he had to walk tippy-toe in seeking it. He knew Lyndon Johnson would resent any overt pressures aimed at forcing him into selecting a particular running mate...
Gartner said he was "not terribly concerned with overt discrimination." He observed that the low number of Negroes employed tends to "build up a rigid system." This is so, he said, since many employees obtain jobs through people who already work at the Bick, and because Negroes are discouraged from applying for a job when they see that most of the employees of an establishment are white...
...half hours before the ballot, Vanocur accosted Scranton's floor manager, Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott, and extracted from him remarks that were an almost overt admission that Scranton had already conceded defeat. Though reporters and delegates on the spot may have known it, the TV audience across the country did not-getting in addition a little episode of ineptitude on the part of Scott. Chancellor, on the other hand, made capital amusement out of his own arrest. Led out of the hall by a sergeant at arms for refusing to clear an aisle, he kept yattering into...