Word: overtness
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...Progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)-backed councillors have held a majority in City Hall since 1990. But their first term in power wan relatively free from overt partisan politics. Since CCA councillors won a second majority in the 1991 election, they have done far more than appoint like-minded officials...
Like most other women students, I always felt abit detached, one step removed, from the rest ofHarvard. Yet, in the face of overt discrimination,we Cliffies were remarkably passive--and so wasthe Radcliffe administration. President MaryBunting threw her considerable energies intobuilding a separate house system and undergraduatelibrary for Radcliffe instead of integratingHarvard's institutions...
...roughly two dozen guards approached by TheCrimson this week, only three said they had everwitnessed overt acts of harassment inside thedepartment...
...stiletto heels. It was a pair of Ferragamo high heels that Monroe was wearing in The Seven Year Itch when the warm air from a subway grate famously raised her skirt. Ferragamo's shoes were sexy without being trampish. His come-get-me shoes were elegant, not overt, their allure coming from the fact that they simultaneously revealed and concealed, which is the secret of all eroticism in fashion...
...appearance at Sanders Theatre, I sent a letter to the SAC expressing Hillel's Chuck D and Conrad Mohammad. I argued that their appearance should not have been funded because in his speech Mohammad viciously attacked whites, Jews and women. Hillel argued that for the Foundation to sponsor an overt bigot (who bizarrely asserted that Jews are responsible for the depletion of the ozone layer) would be to blaspheme its mandate of "enhancing the quality of our common living...