Word: overtness
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This week came a 5-to-3 decision: mere membership in the Communist Party is not sufficient reason to cancel naturalization unless the person in question commits overt acts. Petitioner Schneiderman could not lose his citizenship for believing in "some form of world union of Soviet republics" unless the U.S. is willing to do the same "with regard to those who believe in Pan-Americanism, the League of Nations, Union...
...Children Drink. 'The cases fell into five main classes: 1) children who drank to escape an unbearable situation; 2) children whose drinking was an expression of their attitude toward others, e.g., a boy drinking to spite his drunken father; 3) "latent or overt homosexuals"; 4) psychopathic personalities; 5) psychotics. Examples...
...British decision to outlaw the Indian National Congress [TIME, Aug. 17] at a time when no overt act of disobedience had taken place ... is regarded by many as justified. . . . Yet even those who accept this view know in their hearts that there could be no graver disaster to the cause of freedom than what has happened in India and no folly more wicked than the folly which seeks to save India from her enemies through a policy of terrorization endorsed by her friends...
...government by force and violence. The only evidence which the government produced was the Marxist and Trotskyist literature which was found in the offices of the defendants, members of the Minneapolis Teamsters; Union and the Minneapolis Socialist Workers' Party. The government abandoned completely its attempt to prove any overt acts...
...position had the simple clarity of a stone wall. One nervous twitch of a Japanese trigger finger, one jump in any direction, one overt act, might be enough. A vast array of armies, of navies, of air fleets were stretched now in the position of track runners, in the tension of the moment before the starter...