Word: overtness
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...most remarkable thing about last week's demonstrations was that they represented the only display of overt passion in a week when the U.N. methodically put off action on a whole roster of major colonial issues. Yet few subjects ordinarily incite more fervor-spontaneous or arranged-or provide more clash of interest and search of conscience than the cry of colonialism. In the closing days of the ninth session, the U.N.'s General Assembly voted...
...Kethubah (literally, "what is written"), a contract by which a Jewish husband must make provision for any wife he divorces. In about A.D. 1000, Germany's Rabbi Gershom ben Judah banned polygamy for Jews of the Western world and decreed that if there were no overt offense (such as adultery) by one of the marriage partners, no divorce could be granted unless the wife agreed...
...honest island" with a woman who is the spirit, within himself, of learning and self-improvement. But also within him is the spirit of a former mistress, fame, still calling him to creation. Using the vitality and comfort of fortune and power as her lures, she holds behind these overt blandishments the artist's recollection of his past creations and the joy they brought him. In his withdrawal from fame and creation is the basis of his discontent, for the force of learning is barren of inspiration for the artist, and he neither is ready for calm perfection...
...surprise move was sprung by Wayne Morse and two Democrats, Minnesota's Humphrey and Massachusetts' Kennedy, as a partisan response to McCarthyite charges that Democrats are soft on Communism. Michigan's Homer Ferguson pointed out that the rider merely outlaws a name, does not cope with overt subversive acts. "What conduct would the Senator make illegal by his amendment?" he asked Humphrey...
...there were also signs that the colonel had a secret army of undeclared supporters among G.I. husbands. And he got overt aid from his superiors at the U.S. Army's European headquarters in Heidelberg, which is considering whether to make Dilley's decree the official policy for all U.S. posts in occupied Germany. The way some women dress abroad, said an Army spokesman, "has adversely affected the best interests of the United States...