Word: overtness
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First, it is always possible that "advice and counseling" may have nothing to do with an overt, dangerous act. Under the new bill, a suspect's particular actions will no longer be the only criteria for judging whether he is subversive. Rather, the court must consider what he says as well...
...trusted him. That was taken as an official blessing for the Darby strategy. Ike also indicated that he was thinking of returning from SHAPE around the "turn of the year." He realized, said the messenger, that if he was to be a candidate, he would have to make some overt act to identify himself as a Republican soon after he returned-either by a statement or by joining some G.O.P. organization...
...also clipped 20 examples of newspaper clichés and standard phrases out of six Boston papers, sent his journalism students through a night bakery, a waiting room, a steel mill and a railroad station, to see how well the phrases were understood. Samples: bipartisan foreign policy, act of overt aggression, fusillade of shots, dereliction of duty, titular head of the party, diplomat without portfolio, deficit spending, eschewing presidential ambitions, policy of containment. The average reader got nearly half the phrases wrong. Even "bipartisan foreign policy" had hard going; some of those questioned thought it meant that both Roman Catholics...
Preventive Medicine. In the slums, lone children, first children and last children, say the Gluecks, are least apt to become delinquent. It is the between-children who are most likely to show the early danger signs: temper tantrums, profanity, obscene language, and, in one case out of three, overt acts of delinquency before they turn eight...
...Real Temptation. The Communists' overt regimentation tactics vary. Sometimes such crushing taxes are levied on church properties that the church is forced to sell or give up its land and buildings. Missionaries are often confined to one spot under virtual house arrest. Chinese clergymen get compulsory indoctrination in the word according to Marx, and are required to report to commissars each week on their study of Communist doctrines and their practice of "self-criticism." Church premises are frequently "borrowed" by government officials for "people's meetings" or "people's theaters" just at the time for church services...