Word: overtness
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...statutes of Harvard College have always been very specific about the matter of undergraduates gathering in great and opinionated numbers for purposes not altogether academic. The law is a good deal more lenient now than it once was but overt disruptions have remained officially unacceptable for three centuries...
...author's view of American attitudes and their effect on relations with Cuba also neglects some issues damaging to his thesis. Draper says that the collaboration between the Communists and Castro began in 1959, "long before any overt American action was taken against the Castro regime." This matter of overt governmental hostility appears more than once in the book, but other sources of grumbling, complaint, and denunciation are never mentioned. Draper obviously has read almost everything written on Cuba since Castro. He certainly knows the reports of bewilderment and anger in Cuba over the steady criticism from certain quarters...
...overt cases of malaria are a rarity. Rarer still are cases of the so-called malignant form. Rarest of all is a life-threatening case of malignant malaria contracted by a patient while undergoing treatment in one of the nation's major hospitals...
...genius as a propagandist. Rising to share Cairo's skyline with the huge dome of the Mohammed Ali mosque is a forest of transmitting antennas that carry Radio Cairo's message to all the world. Cairo's voice bears many accents. There is the overt Voice of the Arabs, and a whole concatenation of '"Voices" (Voice of the Arab Nation, Free Voice of Iran, Voice of Free Africa, etc.), which bleat incitement to rebellion with no identification of their Egyptian origin. The transmitting complex is elaborate and devilishly clever. Recently, Somali-language transmissions have supported...
...sense, he argued, such arguments among allies indicate that things are getting better. "There isn't as much of an overt Soviet military threat to Berlin now as there was some months ago. Whatever success we may have had in reducing the threat, of course, we pay for by increased problems within the alliance. But if the threat comes again, the alliance will join together. For the period now, we are enjoying the luxury of internal dissension...