Word: overtness
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...baseball survives [April 30]. Is it because baseball does not require overt violence or repeated scoring to keep the true fan alert? Is it because hitting a baseball - a 100-m.p.h. fastball with a "hop," a curve that drops 2 ft., or a knuckleball that defies description- is the single most difficult feat required in all sports...
...temporarily stymied. Thieu's police watched over the urban areas, minimizing overt NLF organizing activities. The countryside was continually swept bare by saturation bombing and search-and-destroy operations...
...situation was deliberately set and ripe for overt trouble. The `revolutionary movement' was in part funded by Harvard College itself (which chose not to complain when college supplies were diverted to radical uses such as mimeograph paper and ink). Known communists were admitted as students to Radcliffe and Harvard, and the rest is history...
Thus, Cambridge sunk deeper and deeper into her own vulnerability. Each violent demonstration, each overt act of violence compounded not only the misery of the poor, but the threat of serious breach of national security...
...increased its aid because of the rebellion. As for the insurgents, there is some evidence that their weapons are smuggled in by speedboats from the Malaysian state of Sabah (see map page 37), and that faraway Libya stands ready to finance fellow Moslems. But there has been no overt intervention, so far, on their behalf...