Word: overtness
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, said that although the law may be technically constitutional, it is unwise. "The guilt of the teacher should be overt," he said. "We should merely insist that she be a law-abiding citizen, that her teaching meet professional standards, and that she not mix political beliefs with her teaching. What else she does or believes is her own business...
France fights a colonial war, that overt help to her should be avoided lest it dismay the Indians, the Burmese and the, Indonesians. The French wanted a definite U.S. promise of armed forces for IndoChina-sea and air support, not ground troops-in the event the Chinese invaded. Without such a commitment, the French argued Indo-China would fall to the Communists, and so, in a matter of time, would British Malaya, Burma, Siam and probably Indonesia...
...Overt Acts...
...State's charges were based mainly on testimony supplied by Herbert A. Philbrick, former F.B.I. undercover agent, and on statements that Struik made or articles he had written. No evidence was given of direct overt acts in the bill of particulars...
...nature of wrong and of the way to put it right ... In the first place 'Sin,' as the Christian conceives it, differs from 'Crime' not only in degree but in kind. It is a morbid condition of the whole self rather than a series of overt acts ... In a certain sense, personal responsibility ... is here at its most extreme ... It is an obligation to answer not only for particular acts or omissions but. . . for the tenor of a whole life ... It involves an admission of total moral bankruptcy, a plea of 'Guilty' without mitigating...